As the map demonstrates, the Auschwitz complex served as a concentration camp and an industrial centre for the exploitation of brutal slave labour - but it was the perpetration of genocide that ...

The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and ...

The German authorities founded the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in the Polish town of Oswiecim after their invasion ...

In the first room of the memorial’s main exhibition building, a large map ... concentration camp. On the way, he was separated from his mother and younger brother, who were sent to Auschwitz.