Auschwitz concentration camp  

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Auschwitz was the largest of the Nazi concentration camps. Located in southern Poland, it took its name from the nearby town of Oświęcim (Auschwitz in German), situated about 50 kilometers west of Kraków and 286 kilometers from Warsaw. Following the Nazi occupation of Poland in September 1939, Oświęcim was incorporated into Germany and renamed Auschwitz.

The complex consisted of three main camps: Auschwitz I, the administrative center; Auschwitz II (Birkenau), an extermination camp or Vernichtungslager; and Auschwitz III (Monowitz), a work camp. There were also around 40 satellite camps, some of them tens of kilometers from the main camps, with prisoner populations ranging from several dozen to several thousand.

See also

• Auschwitz Album – a collection of pictures taken at Auschwitz during its operation.
• Auschwitz Trial
• Central Labour Camp Jaworzno Arbeitslager Neu-Dachs (Jaworzno)
• Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials
• Höcker Album
• International Auschwitz Committee
• International Youth Meeting Center in Oświęcim/Auschwitz
• Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics
• List of Nazi concentration camps
• List of victims and survivors of Auschwitz
• Oświęcim synagogue
• Przyszowice massacre
• Research Materials: Max Planck Society Archive
• Shark Island Extermination Camp
• SS command of Auschwitz concentration camp
• Survivor syndrome
• Timeline of deportations of French Jews to death camps
• Tourism in Poland