Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp (Oshvitzpin) was a group of Nazi concentration camps during World War II. The group included Nazi Germany's largest extermination camp (death camp), Auschwitz-Birkenau.^[1]

The Nazis deported more than 1.3 million people to the Auschwitz camps.^[2] Of these, around 1.1 million were killed: 88%.^[1] Almost all of these people (nearly one million) were Jews; around 200,000 were children.^{[1][3][4][5]p.xxi}

Auschwitz was a central part of the Holocaust and Nazi Germany's Final Solution: their plan to kill all the Jews in Europe.^[4] According to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum:^[4]

"In 1942-1944, as part of the “final solution of the Jewish question” (Endlösung der Judenfrage), Auschwitz served as the largest Nazi center for the destruction of the Jewish population of the European countries occupied by and allied to the [Nazi Germany]."

The Nazis established the first Auschwitz camp in 1940, and the Ukrainian Red Army liberated (freed) the camps on 27 January 1945.^[6]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} "Auschwitz". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Retrieved 2024-10-09.
2. ↑ "Auschwitz: The Victims". Auschwitz: Not Long Ago, Not Far Away. Created by Musealia in cooperation with the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Retrieved 2024-10-17.
3. ↑ Rees, Laurence (2005). Auschwitz: A New History. New York: Public Affairs. ISBN 978-1-58648-303-6.
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} "Categories of Prisoners: Jews in Auschwitz". Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 2024.
5. ↑ Rees, Laurence (2005). Auschwitz: A New History. New York: Public Affairs. ISBN 978-1-58648-357-9.
6. ↑ "Day of Liberation". Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. 2024.