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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The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a 2018 Holocaust novel by New Zealand novelist Heather Morris. The book tells the story of how Slovakian Jew Lale Sokolov...
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1901 – 16 April 1947) was a German SS officer and the commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. After the defeat of Nazi Germany and the end of World...
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a 2024 historical drama miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Heather Morris. The cast includes Harvey Keitel...
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Look up Auschwitz in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps...
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Irma Grese (redirect from Beast of Auschwitz)
camp Helferin at Ravensbrück, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Bergen-Belsen. She has been widely known as the "Hyena of Auschwitz" and the "Beast of Belsen" for...
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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 Auschwitz Album is a photographic record of the Holocaust during the Second World War. It and the Sonderkommando photographs are among the small number...
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Auschwitz Report may refer to: Auschwitz Protocols, also known as the Auschwitz Reports or Auschwitz Report, a collection of three eyewitness reports about...
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Auschwitz is a 2011 German drama film directed by Uwe Boll. The film attempts to depict the harsh reality of the process inside the Nazi Germany Auschwitz...
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The Auschwitz trial began on November 24, 1947, in Kraków, when Poland's Supreme National Tribunal tried forty former staff of the Auschwitz concentration...
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Auschwitz occurred on 7 October 1944, when a large group of Sonderkommando members in the crematoria area of Birkenau camp (also known as Auschwitz II)...
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Erkennungsdienst ("Political Department Identification Service") in the Auschwitz concentration camp was a kommando of SS officers and prisoners who photographed...
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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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19°10′42″E / 50.03583°N 19.17833°E / 50.03583; 19.17833 On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz—a Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp in occupied Poland where...
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The Auschwitz Combat Group (German: Kampfgruppe Auschwitz, Polish: Grupa Bojowa Oświęcim) was international left-wing resistance organization in Auschwitz...
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Josef Mengele (category Auschwitz concentration camp medical personnel)
officer and physician during World War II at the Russian front and then at Auschwitz during the Holocaust, where he was nicknamed the "Angel of Death" (German:...
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term used by the occupying Nazi forces to describe the area around the Auschwitz concentration camp complex reserved for the Schutzstaffel (SS), subject...
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Oświęcim (redirect from Auschwitz (city))
Oświęcim (Polish: [ɔˈɕfjɛɲtɕim] ; German: Auschwitz [ˈaʊʃvɪts] ; Yiddish: אָשפּיצין, romanized: Oshpitzin) is a town in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship...
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issue of why the Allies did not act on early reports of atrocities in the Auschwitz concentration camp by destroying it or its railways by air during World...
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Unit 731 (redirect from Asian Auschwitz)
Archived from the original on 31 May 2019. Retrieved 31 May 2019. "Asia's Auschwitz". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 December 1994. Archived from the original...
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The Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, known in German as Auschwitzprozesse, was a series of three trials running from 20 December 1963 to 14 June 1968, charging...
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The Zone of Interest (film) (category Auschwitz concentration camp)
the 2014 novel by Martin Amis, the film focuses on the life of German Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, who live with their family...
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known as Effektenlager or simply Kanada, were storage facilities in the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland during the Holocaust. The...
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Holocaust trains (redirect from Train to Auschwitz)
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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Sonderkommando (section Auschwitz)
Hell: History of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando (2022) published by the Auschwitz Museum, the renewed exterminations of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Sonderkommandos...
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Germany. Today, it is primarily known for its use above the entrance of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Because prisoners were generally not...
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Czesława Kwoka (category Polish people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp)
1943) was a Polish Catholic girl who was murdered at the age of 14 in Auschwitz. One of the thousands of minor child and teen victims of German World...
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"Auschwitz or the great alibi" (French: Auschwitz ou le grand alibi) is a 1960 article published in Programme communiste, the French magazine of the International...
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