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 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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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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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 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 2024 historical drama miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Heather Morris. The cast includes Harvey Keitel...
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Irma Grese (redirect from Beast of Auschwitz)
December 1945) was a Nazi concentration camp guard at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and served as warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen. She was...
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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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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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Erkennungsdienst ("Political Department Identification Service") in the Auschwitz concentration camp was a kommando of SS officers and prisoners who photographed...
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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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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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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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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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This is a list of notable victims and survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp; that is, victims and survivors about whom a significant amount of...
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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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Oświęcim (redirect from Auschwitz (city))
Oświęcim (Polish: [ɔˈɕfjɛɲtɕim] ; German: Auschwitz [ˈaʊʃvɪts] ; Yiddish: אָשפּיצין, romanized: Oshpitzin; Silesian: Uośwjyńćim) is a town in the Lesser...
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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 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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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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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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Auschwitz is a 2011 German drama film directed by Uwe Boll. The film attempts to depict the harsh reality of the process inside the Auschwitz concentration...
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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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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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The Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz (Mädchenorchester von Auschwitz; lit. "Girls' Orchestra of Auschwitz") was formed by order of the SS in 1943, during...
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Germany at the time. It is nowadays known for its use above the entrance of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. The expression comes from the title...
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Oskar Gröning (redirect from Bookkeeper of Auschwitz)
March 2018) was a German SS Unterscharführer who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp. His responsibilities included counting and sorting...
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Maximilian Kolbe (category Polish people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp)
place of a man named Franciszek Gajowniczek in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II. He had been active...
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The Auschwitz Report (Slovak: Správa) is a 2021 historical drama war film directed by Peter Bebjak who co-wrote the script with Jozef Pastéka & Peter...
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Censorship in Auschwitz concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz; also K.L. Auschwitz) followed the broader pattern of political and cultural...
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