consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers; Auschwitz III-Monowitz...

refer to: Birkenau (Odenwald), a municipality in the Odenwald in southern Hesse in Germany Brzezinka or Birkenau, a Polish village Birkenau (painting)...

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau) is a museum on the site of the Nazi German Auschwitz concentration camp...

Birkenau is a cycle of four paintings by Gerhard Richter from 2014. The name Birkenau refers to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Richter transferred...

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Foundation (ABMF) was founded in New York, USA, in 2012 as a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the preservation...

Birkenau in the Odenwald is a municipality in the Bergstraße district in southern Hesse, Germany. Its nickname is Das Dorf der Sonnenuhren – “The Sundial...

German-occupied Poland, she is among those memorialized in an Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum exhibit, "Block no. 6: Exhibition: The Life of the Prisoners"...

Smoke over Birkenau (Polish: Dymy nad Birkenau) is a 1945 autobiographical book by Polish writer Seweryna Szmaglewska, based on her experiences as an...

camps were Chełmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Extermination through labour was also used at the Auschwitz and Majdanek...

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 created...

cessation of mass extermination / Evacuation / History / Auschwitz-Birkenau". Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Retrieved 21 January 2020. Hojka & Kulpa 2016...

the newly opened Auschwitz II – Birkenau concentration camp in occupied Poland. Dreschel began her duties at Birkenau in August 1942 as soon as the women's...

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Memorial Museum. Exceptions are Herman's letter (kept in the archives of the Amicale des déportés d'Auschwitz-Birkenau) and Gradowski's...

taken within 15–30 minutes of each other by an inmate inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex. Usually named only...

Auschwitz-Birkenau, buildings which were used to gas and burn some 900,000 of the 1.1 million people that were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Nazi-occupied...

Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation, created in 2009 by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, aims to gather and manage an endowment from which income shall finance the long-term...

when a large group of Sonderkommando members in the crematoria area of Birkenau camp (also known as Auschwitz II) rebelled against the Nazi guards of the...

approximately 1.1 million people in gas chambers installed at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Majdanek, and other extermination camps. Hydrogen cyanide, a poisonous...

medievalist and social activist. He has served as Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum since 2006. From 2000 to 2010, he was the Director of the...

for her role in the Holocaust as a top-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, where she is believed to have been directly complicit...

anti-Nazi resistance. He was a member of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau from May to August 1944. He took part in the preparation of the Sonderkommando...

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 he tattoos...

young men, at the Polish–Hungarian border and deported to KL Auschwitz-Birkenau as prisoner number 3444. He was assigned to the camp's Erkennungsdienst...

woman of Polish Jewish descent, known for her escape from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. She is also remembered for her lifesaving acts in favor...

known as "Cyclops", due to having a glass eye, and as the "Butcher of Birkenau". SS Hauptscharführer Moll held the position of SS Rapportführer a senior...

entire Jewish population that extermination camps such as Auschwitz II Birkenau and Treblinka were fitted with permanent gas chambers to murder large numbers...

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, 2016. Cyra, Adam. “The Romeo and Juliet from Birkenau.” In Pro Memoria, vol. 5 (Information Bulletin of the Auschwitz-Birkenau...

The main camp (German: Stammlager) was Auschwitz I. Auschwitz II, or Birkenau, was a concentration and extermination camp, and became the most notorious...

Amsterdam during the German occupation, she was transported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Edith was the youngest of four children, having been...

Auschwitz-Birkenau in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp who worked in the crematory. Only 110 out of 2,000 Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz-Birkenau survived...