Skip to main content
Global Edition
Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Auschwitz concentration camp

German network of concentration and extermination camps in occupied Poland during World War II


Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labour camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben; and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution to the Jewish question.

0 shares 3 views

News coverage

You might like