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	Auschwitz concentration camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Auschwitz, Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau, KL Auschwitz, Nazi German Concentration Camp of Auschwitz was the largest of the Nazi German extermination camps, along with a number of concentration camps, comprising three main camps and 40 to 50 sub-camps.
		Auschwitz I, the original concentration camp which served as the administrative center for the whole complex, and was the site of the deaths of roughly 70,000 people, mostly Poles and Soviet prisoners of war.
		Auschwitz II (Birkenau), an extermination camp, where at least 1.1 million Jews, 75,000 Poles, and some 19,000 Roma (gypsies) were killed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp (4144 words)

	Introduction & Images of Nazi Death Camps in Auschwitz by Adrian Warren
		Auschwitz II - Birkenau was a gigantic and horrific factory of death, built for the purpose of extermination on the site of the evacuated village of Brzezinka.
		Auschwitz II - Birkenau: Guard watch tower overlooking road leading from the railway sidings to accommodation areas which were separated from one another by barbed wire fences.
		Auschwitz II - Birkenau : Many of the wooden accommodation blocks were burned down; all that remains are the brick hearths for heating and chimney flues.
	www.lastrefuge.co.uk /data/articles/nazi_death_camps-Auschwitz/auschwitz_page1.htm (1545 words)

	Auschwitz
		Auschwitz is the German name of the Polish town Oswiecim (Polish name Oświęcim) situated in Malopolskie voivodship, about 60 km southwest of Krakow.
		Auschwitz II (Birkenau) is the camp that most people know simply as "Auschwitz".
		After the war, Auschwitz remained in a state of disrepair for several years; then the Polish government decided to restore Auschwitz I and to preserve but not to restore Auschwitz II (where buildings were prone to decay).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/au/Auschwitz_Concentration_Camp.html (1394 words)

	History of Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp - quick overview
		Auschwitz II is the world's largest Jewish graveyard, the place where the ashes of almost a million innocent victims were scattered over the fields, thrown into the rivers, or dumped into several small ponds more than sixty years ago.
		KL Auschwitz was a Class I camp, a mild prison for political dissidents who were considered capable of being "rehabilitated." The Auschwitz main camp was a place where the political prisoners, not including the Jews, had such amenities as a swimming pool, a brothel, and a museum where their artwork was displayed.
		Auschwitz II, or Birkenau, was opened on October 7, 1941 as a Prisoner of War camp for soldiers captured during the German invasion of the Soviet Union which had begun on June 22, 1941.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /Poland/Birkenau/Birkenau01.html (7113 words)

	The History Place - Auschwitz Today
		About Auschwitz -- It was a huge extermination and slave labor complex run by the SS featuring three main camps and 36 sub-camps, located in the southwest corner of occupied Poland outside the city of Oswiecim (pronounced Auschwitz in German).
		Auschwitz I, the original camp, was established in 1939 to hold Polish political prisoners.
		By October 1941, Auschwitz II (Birkenau) was opened nearby and became the main killing center during the Final Solution in which the Nazis attempted to exterminate the entire Jewish population of Europe.
	www.historyplace.com /specials/slideshows/auschwitz/ausch-show001.htm (174 words)

	Auschwitz-Birkenau Extermination Camp (Poland) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Auschwitz II included a camp for new arrivals and those to be sent on to labor elsewhere; a Gypsy camp; a family camp; a camp for holding and sorting plundered goods and a women's camp.
		By the end of 1943, the prisoner population of Auschwitz main camp, Birkenau, Monowitz and other sub-camps was over 80,000: 18,437 in the main camp, 49,114 in Birkenau, and 13,288 at Monowitz where I G Farben had its synthetic rubber plant.
		In II and III, the killings took place in underground rooms, and the corpses were carried to the five ovens by an electrically operated lift.
	www.jewishgen.org /ForgottenCamps/Camps/AuschwitzEng.html (1737 words)

	Auschwitz I and II. The first a concentration camp, the second an extermination center
		Auschwitz I was primarily reserved for political prisoners, mainly Poles and Germans, throughout its existence.
		Auschwitz II was an extensive complex made up of wooden structures which originally were built to stable fifty-two horses.
		The expansion of Auschwitz I and II Arbeit macht frei
	www.cympm.com /auschwitz.html (1265 words)

	Kratz Family Auschwitz Memorial
		Auschwitz I, the original concentration camp which served as the administrative centre for the whole complex, and was the site of the deaths of roughly 70,000 Polish intellectuals, gay men and Soviet Prisoners of War
		He was hanged in 1947 in front of the entrance to the crematorium of Auschwitz I. About 700 prisoners attempted to escape from the Auschwitz camps during the years of their operation, with about 300 attempts successful.
		The women's camp was moved to Auschwitz Birkenau in October 1942, and Maria Mandel was brought in as the new head overseer.
	www.bigmeathammer.com /aushwitz27.htm (2096 words)

	Auschwitz
		Auschwitz was, in fact, a complex of camps which combined the functions of labor, internment, and the extermination.
		Auschwitz had gas chambers of different sizes; in the largest of these, as many as 2,000 people could be murdered in 10 to 20 minutes.
		At Birkenau, the main part of Auschwitz used for murder, two small farmhouses operated as improvised gas chambers: the "white house" and the "red house." Later, four custom-built chambers were constructed in Birkenau (Gas Chambers II, III, IV, and V).
	www.richeast.org /htwm/CCamps/CCamps.html (1965 words)

	Birkenau \| Poland \| Auschwitz Birkenau
		Birkenau was created in 1941 as a satellite of the Auschwitz camp.
		They were of many different nationalities, but the vast majority of those that entered the camp were unregistered Jews, many of whom were immediately sent to their deaths in the gas chambers.
		Birkenau is a very large place and thus it is easy to miss a small portion of camp.
	www.cracow-life.com /guide/Auschwitz/birkenau-poland.html (580 words)

	Brzezinka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		By the time of the construction of the first railroad station in 1856 the station was on Brzezinka's territory, but later it was transplanted to nearby Oświęcim (Auschwitz).
		The name Brzezinka was given to the area as far back as 1385 and stems from the Polish word for the birch trees which are plentiful.
		During World War II while Poland was occupied by Germany the village was chosen as the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp, which still exists along with Auschwitz, as a memorial to the victims of Nazism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brzezinka (241 words)

	Auschwitz
		Auschwitz was originally intended to serve as a concentration camp and a place of slow death for Polish political prisoners and other Poles.
		Auschwitz I and II The first prisoners to be sent to Auschwitz, a group of 728 Polish political prisoners (including some Jews), arrived in Auschwitz from
		In crematoria II and III the gas was poured through vents in the roof directly into the gas chambers, in crematoria IV and V from apertures at the side of the buildings.
	www.deathcamps.org /occupation/auschwitz.html (1732 words)

	Birkenau/Auschwitz II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The first, Auschwitz I, was the holding camp and the administration center of the all three camps.
		Auschwitz II, or Birkenau, was the extermination camp and the largest of the three sub-camps.
		Birkenau is not as well known or as visited as Auschwitz I, but more Jews died there than any other place during the Holocaust.
	www.fatherryan.org /holocaust/index_files/index.htm (153 words)

	Auschwitz - Birkenau Exhibition \| LukeTravels.com
		The majority of the Jewish men, women and children deported to Auschwitz were sent to their deaths in the Birkenau gas chambers immediately after arrival.
		Jews comprised the largest number of victims, and Auschwitz has become the prime symbol of what became known as the Holocaust of European Jewry; at least one-third of the estimated 5 million to 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II died there.
		The Nazis established Auschwitz in April 1940 under the direction of Heinrich Himmler, chief of two Nazi organizations-the Nazi guards known as the Schutzstaffel (SS), and the secret police known as the Gestapo.
	www.luketravels.com /auschwitz (1319 words)

	Auschwitz-Birkenau
		In February 1943, a section for Gypsies was established at Birkenau, camp BIIe, and in September 1943 an area was reserved for Czech Jews deported from Theresienstadt, the so-called "Family Camp," BIIb.
		By the end of 1943, the prisoner population of Auschwitz main camp, Birkenau, Monowitz and other subcamps was over 80,000: 18,437 in the main camp, 49,114 in Birkenau, and 13,288 at Monowitz where I G Farben had its synthetic rubber plant.
		Auschwitz became a significant source of slave labor locally and functioned as an international clearing house.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/auschbirk.html (1687 words)

	Historic photograph --->Birkenau (Auschwitz II) Under Construction, 1941 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In its final stage, Auschwitz II was composed of nine sub-units, separated from each other by electrified barbed-wire fences.
		Auschwitz II (Birkenau) was the most populous of the concentration camps at Auschwitz, and the most brutal and inhuman in its conditions.
		It was Auschwitz II that became the extermination center containing all gas chambers and crematoria, except for the first which had been built in Auschwitz I. Birkenau under construction in 1941:
	isurvived.org /birkenau-1side.html (207 words)

	Gallery - Auschwitz-Birkenau - Photos
		Jewish children, kept alive in the Auschwitz II (Birkenau) concentration camp, pose in concentration camp uniforms between two rows of barbed wire fencing after liberation.
		View of one of the warehouses in Auschwitz, which is stuffed to overflowing with clothes confiscated from prisoners.
		An aerial reconnaissance photograph of the Auschwitz concentration camp showing the destruction of the Auschwitz II (Birkenau) camp by the Germans in expectation of the arrival of Soviet troops.
	fcit.coedu.usf.edu /holocaust/resource/gallery/AUSCH1.htm (475 words)

	Auschwitz II - Birkenau - Judenrampe - where prisoners arrived on trains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Before the Sauna building with its disinfection chambers was built in 1943 at Birkenau, the luggage went to the main Auschwitz camp where it was sorted and deloused in 19 disinfection chambers in the administration building.
		Before the four large gas chambers in Krema II, Krema III, Krema IV and Krema V were put into use in the Spring and Summer of 1943, the Jews were gassed in two old farm houses located just outside the Birkenau camp.
		According to the Auschwitz Museum, there were 100,000 prisoners still alive in Birkenau in 1944 when this ramp ceased to be used.
	www.scrapbookpages.com /AuschwitzScrapbook/Tour/Birkenau/Judenrampe.html (896 words)

	Auschwitz and the holocaust
		Auschwitz was the site of Germany's newest and most technologically advanced synthetic rubber plant; and Germany was the world's leader in this particular field of technology.
		Auschwitz was a major work camp that had forty different industries.
		The true reason for the existence of the Auschwitz camp is revealed in these little shown pictures of the industrial complex which surrounded the camp - most of it within full view of the interior of the camp itself.
	judicial-inc.biz /Auschwitz.htm (1052 words)

	Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camp
		At its peak the whole complex was a deadly prison to some 150,000 inmates that were being either murdered outright or starved and worked to death.
		October 1939: the Nazis annex the ancient Polish town of Oswiecim to the Third Reich and rename it Auschwitz.
		Before the Nazis came to Oswiecim and set up their monstrous Auschwitz concentration camp here, a small Jewish community had led its peaceful life at that place as in many other Polish towns in the region.
	www.krakow-info.com /auschwit.htm (771 words)

	Auschwitz II - Birkenau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		By 1942, there were 28 buildings in the original camp at Auschwitz -- Auschwitz I.
		More space was needed, and the S.S. realized that Auschwitz I could not be expanded to accomodate the mass influx of Jews and other prisoners from all over Europe.
		At Birkenau, there were first two gas chambers, and then, after the technology was perfected and the buildings constructed to house them, four massive crematoriums.
	www3.iath.virginia.edu /holocaust/birkenau.html (163 words)

	Hazardous Media Eastern European Cyber Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The SS was unable to destroy everything before the Russians liberated KL Auschwitz I-II in the spring of 1945.
		In Auschwitz alone, from 1942-1943, 20,000 kilograms (nearly 20 tons) of Cyclon B was used.
		When the Red Army liberated Auschwitz, piles of empty cans, as well as a number of containers still full of the deadly crystals were found in the camp warehouses.
	hazardous.com /europe/auschwitz4.html (502 words)

	KL Auschwitz II - Birkenau, Page I
		The number of victims held at the KL Auschwitz I had already grown to more than 20,000 and the main camp was not able to hold any more victims inside.
		Also the Reichsführer SS, Heinrich Himmler, had already in the summer of 1941, chosen Auschwitz as the place for mass extermination of Jews.
		It meant that even when the number of prisoners arriving to the camp was great, there was no need for a huge number of living quarters, as the victims were brought by a train to the unloading platform and from there, rushed to their deaths in the gas chambers.
	www.silentwall.com /BirkenauI.html (489 words)

	Photographs From Auschwitz-Birkenau
		A slab near Krema V in Birkenau (taken after rainfall, so there is water on it).
		Possibly, one of the slabs over which the bones of the victims were crushed after they were burned in the open (see burning-pit.jpg).
		Supporting pillar for the roof of the gas chamber in Krema II, Birkenau (the gas chamber was dynamited by the fleeing SS).
	www.nizkor.org /hweb/camps/auschwitz/1998-keren-images.html (637 words)

	Auschwitz-Birkenau
		Auschwitz II, the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau, was constructed as the main extermination center for European Jewry.
		After the “sauna,” all prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau were sent to forced labor at Auschwitz I and III (Monowitz), sub-camps, or other concentration camps in the area.
		She passed them to underground members at Auschwitz I and to the Sonderkommando who worked in the crematoria at Birkenau.
	www1.yadvashem.org /education/ceremonies/march/auschwitz.htm (1998 words)

	Piece of Concentration Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau
		Konzentrationslager Auschwitz (KLA) was established by Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler on the site of an old military barracks in 1940 as a large “mother camp” that could supply prisoner labor for the construction of an enormous IG Farben synthetic rubber and fuel plant nearby.
		In October 1941 the Nazis began to construct KL Auschwitz II at Birkenau, three kilometers by railway from the main camp.
		The portion of a glass electrical insulator on the front of this plaque is one of those removed with the wire during the renovation of the fence at Birkenau in 1998.
	www.usmbooks.com /auschwitz_birkenau_plaque.html (489 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Auschwitz
		Before the war was over, Auschwitz would become the largest of the Nazi death camps – a brutal symbol of the unspeakable atrocities that collectively came to be known as the Holocaust.
		Josef Mengele, the most notorious of the SS doctors at Auschwitz, specializes in the study of twins and dwarfs.
		At least one million Jews were murdered at Auschwitz, along with 75,000 Poles, 20,000 Roma, 10,000 Russian POWs and tens of thousands of homosexuals and others.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/auschwitz (949 words)

	Auschwitz; Auschwitz Birkenau; Auschwitz-Birkenau
		Aerial reconnaissance photograph of the Auschwitz concentration camp showing Auschwitz II (Birkenau)
		Auschwitz - "The crushing number of murders -- over 1,200,000 of them -- the overwhelming scale of the crime, and the vast, abandoned site of ruined chimneys and rusint barbed wire isolate Auschwitz from us.
		We think of it as a concentration camp closed in on itself, separated from the rest of the world by night and fog.
	www.vex.net /~nizkor/Auschwitz-av.html (261 words)

	Liquidation of the Gypsy Camp in Birkenau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In terms of numbers, the Romanies (Gypsies) were the third-largest group of deportees to Auschwitz, after the Jews [6 million] and the non-Jewish Poles [3 million].
		On May 23, over 1,500 Gypsies were transferred from Birkenau to Auschwitz, from where they were subsequently transferred to Buchenwald.
		The extermination of the Romanies in Birkenau occurred on the night of August 2/3, 1944, on orders from Reichsfuehrer SS Heinrich Himmler.
	isurvived.org /RomaniLiquidation-Birkenau.html (633 words)

	Auschwitz-Birkenau - Wikimedia Commons
		Entrance to Crematorium III in Auschwitz II (Birkenau)
		Ruin of the White House (Pill-box II) in Auschwitz II (Birkenau)
		Ruin of the gas chamber of Crematorium II in Auschwitz II Pond in the nearby of Crematorium V in Auschwitz II Retrieved from "http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz-Birkenau"
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Auschwitz-Birkenau (264 words)

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