auschwitz
The total number who died at Auschwitz is estimated at between 1.1 million and 1.5 million, 90% of which were Jews; also among the dead were some 19,000 Roma (Gypsies), who were killed in July 1944, and some 83,000 Poles. [1]
Auschwitz-Birkenau became the killing centre where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed during the Holocaust. [2]
View of a section of the barbed-wire fence and barracks at Auschwitz at the time of the liberation of the camp. [3]
Auschwitz, located in Oswiecim outside of Cracow, Poland, has become a symbol of the Holocaust. [4]
You find gripping and horrifying stories of Adolf Hitler and his most ruthless henchmen - men often seen as the very personifications of evil, like Rudolf Hoess, the SS Commandant of Auschwitz, the Nazi butcher Amon Goeth at Plaszow and Josef Mengele, The Angel Of Death. [5]
Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp and extermination camp, located in southern Poland (modern Oswiecim). [1]
Although not the only (or, indeed, the first) Nazi concentration and extermination camp, Auschwitz has become a widespread symbol of terror, genocide and the Holocaust in the global consciousness. [6]
The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the largest of its kind established by the Nazi regime. [3]
The main gate to Birkenau Camp under which the train pass is at the rear left of this historic photograph. [4]
In 1933 nine million Jews lived in the 21 countries of Europe that would be military occupied by Germany during the war. [5]
) was the largest of Nazi Germany’s concentration camps and extermination camps, operational during World War II. [7]
After the Holocaust, it may be argued that Oswiecim will forever be overshadowed by Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest of the Nazi concentration camps and extermination centers. [4]
One-sixth of all Jews murdered by the Nazis were gassed at Auschwitz. [...] Able-bodied Jewish prisoners were sent to a slave-labour camp, while the aged, the weak, and children and their mothers were killed. [1]
The SS authorities continuously deployed prisoners at forced labor to expand the physical contours of the camp. [3]
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[1] Auschwitz: Definition from Answers.com
[2] Auschwitz, Nazi death camp
[3] Auschwitz
[4] Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Concentration Camp Complex –data …
[5] Holocaust
[6] Auschwitz travel guide - Wikitravel
[7] Auschwitz Concentration Camp - Wikipedia