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(by Lyle Salmi) |
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Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany's largest concentration and extermination camp facility, was located nearby the provincial Polish town of
Oświęcim.
(The name of the city was changed to Auschwitz, which became the name of the camp as well.)
By mid 1942, mass gassing of Jews using Zyklon-B began at Auschwitz, where extermination was conducted on an industrial scale with some estimates running as high as three million persons eventually killed
there through gassing, starvation, disease, shooting, and burning. 9 out of 10 were Jews.
Over the years following 1942, the camp was expanded and consisted of three main parts: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Auschwitz III-Monowitz. It also had over 40 sub-camps. The majority of the Jewish men, women and children deported to Auschwitz were sent to their deaths in the Birkenau gas chambers. |
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This page by Karin Borei (as Director of International Programs) on Oct. 18, 2004 |
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