Prisoner huts where Jews were kept before going to the gas chambers and the guards watch tower in the distance.
Prisoner huts where Jews were kept before going to the gas chambers and the guards watch tower in the distance. 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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