Auschwitz concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, pronounced [kɔntsɛntʁaˈtsi̯oːnsˌlaːɡɐ ˈʔaʊʃvɪts] (
listen), an aa KZ and KL Auschwitz) wis a network o German Nazi concentration camps an extermination camps biggit an operatit bi the Third Reich in Pols auries annexed bi Nazi Germany during Warld War II. It conseestit o Auschwitz I (the oreeginal camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combination concentration/extermination camp), Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labour camp tae staff an IG Farben factory), an 45 satellite camps. En et wos undertook the largest extermination of the Jewish Fowk, wi over a milion killed an aw.
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| Nazi German concentration an extermination camp (1940–45) |
 The main entrance tae Auschwitz II (Birkenau) |
Location o Auschwitz in contemporary Poland |
| Coordinates | 50°02′09″N 19°10′42″E |
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| Ither names | Birkenau |
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| Location | Auschwitz, Nazi Germany |
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| Operatit bi | The Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS) |
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| Commandant |
- Rudolf Höß (4 Mey 1940 – Nov. 1943; 8 Mey 1944 – Jan. 1945)
- Arthur Liebehenschel (Dec. 1943 – 8 Mey 1944)
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| Oreeginal uise | Army barracks |
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| Operational | Mey 1940 – Januar 1945 |
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| Inmates | Mainly Jews, Poles, Romani, Soviet prisoners o war |
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| Killed | 1.1 million (estimated) |
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| Liberatit bi | Soviet Union, 27 January 1945 |
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| Notable inmates | Adolf Burger, Anne Frank, Otto Frank, Viktor Frankl, Imre Kertész, Maximilian Kolbe, Primo Levi, Irène Némirovsky, Witold Pilecki, Edith Stein, Simone Veil, Rudolf Vrba, Elie Wiesel, Fritz Löhner-Beda, Else Ury |
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| Notable beuks | If This Is a Man (1947) Night (1956) Man's Search for Meaning (1946) |
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| Wabsteid | www.auschwitz.org |
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| Offeecial name | Auschwitz Birkenau, German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940–1945) |
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| Teep | Cultural |
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| Criteria | vi |
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| Designatit | 1979 (3rd session) |
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| Reference no. | 31 |
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| Region | Europe an North Americae |
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listen), an aa KZ and KL Auschwitz) wis a network o German Nazi concentration camps an extermination camps biggit an operatit bi the Third Reich in Pols auries annexed bi Nazi Germany during Warld War II. It conseestit o Auschwitz I (the oreeginal camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combination concentration/extermination camp), Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labour camp tae staff an IG Farben factory), an 45 satellite camps. En et wos undertook the largest extermination of the Jewish Fowk, wi over a milion killed an aw.