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    of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers; Auschwitz III-Monowitz...
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    The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau) is a museum on the site of the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp...
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  • survive while in Auschwitz-Birkenau labour camp. Gita is a young Jewish woman from Slovakia who meets Lale in Auschwitz II-Birkenau. She meets Lale as...
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  • Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, created in 2009 by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, aims to gather and manage an endowment from which income shall finance the long-term...
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    cessation of mass extermination / Evacuation / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau". Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Retrieved 21 January 2020. Hojka & Kulpa...
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    Stammlager) was Auschwitz I. Auschwitz II, or Birkenau, was a concentration and extermination camp, and became the most notorious of the camps. Auschwitz III, or...
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    Czesława Kwoka (category Polish people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp)
    in German-occupied Poland, she is among those memorialized in an Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum exhibit, "Block no. 6: Exhibition: The Life of the Prisoners"...
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    Cross in Cracow, and in 1947 they were added to the archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Höcker Album Sonderkommando photographs The Portraitist...
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    History of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando (2022) published by the Auschwitz Museum, the renewed exterminations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommandos...
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    murdered at either Bełżec, Chełmno, Sobibór, Majdanek, Treblinka, or Auschwitz-Birkenau. The plan was being realized in the utmost secrecy. In late 1942,...
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    three months. At its peak, Auschwitz comprised three separate facilities: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Auschwitz III-Monowitz. These included...
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    Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Extermination through labour was also used at the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps. Millions...
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    the small number of visual documents that show the operations of Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the German extermination camp in occupied Poland. Originally titled...
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    The Auschwitz Protocols, also known as the Auschwitz Reports, and originally published as The Extermination Camps of Auschwitz and Birkenau, is a collection...
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    formed by order of the SS in 1943, during the Holocaust, in the Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp in German-occupied Poland. Active for 19 months—from...
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  • Hauer-King, and Anna Próchniak. Lale Sokolov, a Jewish prisoner in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II is given the job of tattooing...
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    going on in Auschwitz-Birkenau." On April 7, 1944, two young Jewish inmates, Rudolf Vrba and Alfréd Wetzler, had escaped from the Auschwitz camp with detailed...
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    their roles in the Holocaust as mid- to lower-level officials in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death and concentration camp complex. Hans Hofmeyer led as Chief Judge...
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    Oświęcim (redirect from Auschwitz (city))
    the site of the German Nazi-built Auschwitz concentration camp (the camp is also known as KL or KZ Auschwitz Birkenau) during World War II, when Poland...
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  • Birkenau is a cycle of four paintings by Gerhard Richter from 2014. The name Birkenau refers to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Richter transferred...
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    ghetto in Czechoslovakia, who were held in the BIIb section of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp from 8 September 1943 to 12 July 1944. The Germans...
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    murder approximately 1.1 million people in gas chambers installed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, and other extermination camps. Hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous...
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    Auschwitz, 1940–1945. Central Issues in the History of the Camp. Vol. I: The Establishment and Organization of the Camp. Oświęcim: Auschwitz-Birkenau...
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  • subcamps of Auschwitz-II Birkenau and Auschwitz-III Monowitz in 1942. Writing and sending correspondences was part of the camp culture of Auschwitz. However...
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  • Wilhelm Brasse (category Auschwitz concentration camp survivors)
    other young men, at the Polish–Hungarian border and deported to KL Auschwitz-Birkenau as prisoner number 3444.[deprecated source] He was assigned to the...
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  • Margot Dreschel (category Auschwitz concentration camp personnel)
    transfer to the newly opened Auschwitz II – Birkenau concentration camp in occupied Poland. Dreschel began her duties at Birkenau in August 1942 as soon as...
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    Franz Hössler (category Auschwitz concentration camp personnel)
    a Nazi German SS-Obersturmführer and Schutzhaftlagerführer at the Auschwitz-Birkenau, Dora-Mittelbau and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps during World...
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  • parents, husband and two children to Auschwitz-Birkenau. She eventually secured work in the infirmary at Auschwitz, a position which made her survival...
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    The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation (ABMF) was founded in New York, USA, in 2012 as a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the preservation...
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    ISBN 978-888910032-5. "Kanada". Auschwitz Album. Yad Vashem. "Kanada (Auschwitz)". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Media related...
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