Auschwitz

Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original concentration camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combination concentration / extermination camp), Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labour camp for the IG Farben factory), and 45 satellite camps. For more general subjects see: Concentration Camps: Nazi Extermination Camps