Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz
Nazi German concentration an extermination camp (1940–45)
The main entrance tae Auschwitz II (Birkenau)
Location o Auschwitz in contemporary Poland
Coordinates	50°02′09″N 19°10′42″E
Ither names	Birkenau
Location	Auschwitz, Nazi Germany
Operatit bi	The Nazi Schutzstaffel (SS)
Commandant	Rudolf Höß (4 Mey 1940 – Nov. 1943; 8 Mey 1944 – Jan. 1945) Arthur Liebehenschel (Dec. 1943 – 8 Mey 1944)
Oreeginal uise	Army barracks
Operational	Mey 1940 – Januar 1945
Inmates	Mainly Jews, Poles, Romani, Soviet prisoners o war
Killed	1.1 million (estimated)
Liberatit bi	Soviet Union, 27 January 1945
Notable inmates	Adolf Burger, Anne Frank, Otto Frank, Viktor Frankl, Imre Kertész, Maximilian Kolbe, Primo Levi, Irène Némirovsky, Witold Pilecki, Edith Stein, Simone Veil, Rudolf Vrba, Elie Wiesel, Fritz Löhner-Beda, Else Ury
Notable beuks	If This Is a Man (1947) Night (1956) Man's Search for Meaning (1946)
Wabsteid	www.auschwitz.org
UNESCO Warld Heritage Steid
Offeecial name	Auschwitz Birkenau, German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940–1945)
Teep	Cultural
Criteria	vi
Designatit	1979 (3rd session)
Reference no.	31
Region	Europe an North Americae

Auschwitz concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, pronounced [kɔntsɛntʁaˈtsi̯oːnsˌlaːɡɐ ˈʔaʊʃvɪts] ( listen), an aa KZ and KL Auschwitz) wis a network o German Nazi concentration camps an extermination camps biggit an operatit bi the Third Reich in Pols auries annexed bi Nazi Germany during Warld War II. It conseestit o Auschwitz I (the oreeginal camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combination concentration/extermination camp), Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labour camp tae staff an IG Farben factory), an 45 satellite camps. En et wos undertook the largest extermination of the Jewish Fowk, wi over a milion killed an aw.