Auschwitz concentration camp
(Reguidit frae Auschwitz)
Auschwitz concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, pronounced [kɔntsɛntʁaˈtsi̯oːnsˌlaːɡɐ ˈʔaʊʃvɪts] ( listen), an aa KZ and KL Auschwitz) wis a network o German Nazi concentration camps an extermination camps biggit an operatit bi the Third Reich in Pols auries annexed bi Nazi Germany during Warld War II. It conseestit o Auschwitz I (the oreeginal camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combination concentration/extermination camp), Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labour camp tae staff an IG Farben factory), an 45 satellite camps. En et wos undertook the largest extermination of the Jewish Fowk, wi over a milion killed an aw.
Auschwitz | |
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Nazi German concentration an extermination camp (1940–45) | |
The main entrance tae Auschwitz II (Birkenau) | |
Coordinates | 50°02′09″N 19°10′42″E / 50.03583°N 19.17833°ECoordinates: 50°02′09″N 19°10′42″E / 50.03583°N 19.17833°E |
Ither names | Birkenau |
Location | Auschwitz, Nazi Germany |
Operatit bi | The Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) |
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Oreeginal uise | Army barracks |
Operational | Mey 1940 – Januar 1945 |
Inmates | Mainly Jews, Poles, Romani, Soviet prisoners o war |
Killed | 1.1 million (estimated) |
Liberatit bi | Soviet Union, 27 January 1945 |
Notable inmates | Adolf Burger, Anne Frank, Otto Frank, Viktor Frankl, Imre Kertész, Maximilian Kolbe, Primo Levi, Irène Némirovsky, Witold Pilecki, Edith Stein, Simone Veil, Rudolf Vrba, Elie Wiesel, Fritz Löhner-Beda, Else Ury |
Notable beuks | If This Is a Man (1947) Night (1956) Man's Search for Meaning (1946) |
Wabsteid | www |
Offeecial name | Auschwitz Birkenau, German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940–1945) |
Teep | Cultural |
Criteria | vi |
Designatit | 1979 (3rd session) |
Reference no. | 31 |
Region | Europe an North Americae |