The word “Auschwitz” has come to mean more than just the concentration camp in Poland. It’s shorthand for the horrors of the Holocaust, and proof of man’s capacity for extreme inhumanity to man. But ...
Nearly all the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in occupied Poland, were murdered – either sent to the gas chambers or worked to death. Life expectancy in many of these camps ...
Listed on the UNESCO international list of world heritage sites, the museum was created by an act of the Polish parliament on July 2, 1947, and contains both Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz II-Birkenau ...