Behind a display glass, suitcases of Jewish victims of the Holocaust at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp near Krakow.


Behind a display glass, suitcases of Jewish victims of the Holocaust at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp near Krakow. Auschwitz was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the base camp); Auschwitz II–Birkenau (the extermination camp); Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labor camp to staff an IG Farben factory), and 45 satellite camps.


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Location: Oswiecim, Krakow, Poland
Photo credit: © Mark Davidson / Alamy / Afripics
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