AuschwitzBirkenau

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Holocaust site Nazi concentration and extermination camp World War II site

Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest and most infamous Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, where over a million Jews and other victims were systematically murdered during the Holocaust.

Aliases (26)

Auschwitz-Birkenau ×83
Auschwitz concentration camp ×42
Auschwitz ×6
Auschwitz II-Birkenau ×6
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum ×3
Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp ×3
Auschwitz I ×2
Auschwitz concentration camp complex ×2
Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum ×2
Oświęcim ×2
Auschwitz "Gypsy family camp" (BIIe) ×1
Auschwitz I main camp ×1
Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp ×1
Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp ×1
Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940–1945) ×1
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum area ×1
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp ×1
Birkenau extermination camp ×1
German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau ×1
Nazi concentration camp system ×1
NaziConcentrationCamps ×1
NaziExterminationCamps ×1
Polish: Oświęcim-Brzezinka ×1
UNESCO World Heritage Site (Auschwitz-Birkenau) ×1
deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau ×1
gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau ×1

Statements (78)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Holocaust site → Nazi concentration and extermination camp → World War II site →
BirkenauBeganOperation	1942 →
BirkenauConstructionStarted	1941 →
commemorationDate	International Holocaust Remembrance Day →
constructionStarted	1940 →
countryAtTimeOfOperation	Nazi Germany-occupied Poland →
estimatedNumberOfSurvivorsAtLiberation	about 7,000 →
hasFacility	barbed wire fences → barracks → crematoria → gas chambers → railway ramp → watchtowers →
hasLanguageVariantName	German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau → Polish: Oświęcim-Brzezinka →
hasPart	Auschwitz I → Auschwitz II-Birkenau → Auschwitz III-Monowitz → Auschwitz subcamps →
hasSelectionProcess	arrival platform selections →
hasTypeOfExperiment	medical experiments on prisoners → sterilization experiments → twin experiments →
InternationalHolocaustRemembranceDayDate	27 January →
legalAftermath	Auschwitz trials in Poland → mentioned in Nuremberg Trials →
liberatedBy	Red Army → Soviet Union →
liberatedOn	27 January 1945 →
locatedIn	Lesser Poland Voivodeship → Oświęcim → Poland →
memorialStatus	Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum →
museumEstablished	1947 →
namedAfter	nearby village of Brzezinka (Birkenau) →
notableEvent	death marches during camp evacuation in January 1945 →
notablePerpetrator	Josef Mengele → Rudolf Höss → SS-Totenkopfverbände personnel →
notableSurvivor	Anne Frank (died after transfer from Auschwitz) → Elie Wiesel → Primo Levi → Viktor Frankl →
numberOfJewishVictimsEstimate	approximately 1,000,000 →
numberOfPolishVictimsEstimate	at least 70,000–75,000 →
numberOfRomaVictimsEstimate	approximately 21,000 →
numberOfSovietPOWsVictimsEstimate	at least 15,000 →
numberOfVictimsEstimate	over 1,100,000 →
opened	1940 →
operatedBy	Nazi Germany → Schutzstaffel (SS) →
partOf	Final Solution → Nazi concentration camp system →
primaryFunction	extermination of Jews →
railConnection	connected to major European ghettos and cities →
secondaryFunction	concentration of prisoners → forced labor →
symbolOf	Holocaust → Nazi genocide → industrialized mass murder →
UNESCOCriteria	(vi) →
UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteId	31 →
UNESCOWorldHeritageSiteSince	1979 →
usedMethodOfKilling	Zyklon B → forced labor to death → gas chambers → shootings → starvation →
victimGroups	Jehovah's Witnesses → Jews → Poles → Roma and Sinti → Soviet prisoners of war → homosexuals → other persecuted groups → political prisoners →

Referenced by (90)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Anne Frank ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Czech Jews ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Edith Frank ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Margot Frank ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Regina Jonas ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Łódź Ghetto Jews ("Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp") →	deportedTo
Auschwitz-Birkenau ("Auschwitz I") → Auschwitz-Birkenau ("Auschwitz II-Birkenau") → World Heritage Sites in Poland ("Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940–1945)") → World Heritage Sites in Poland ("Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp") →	hasPart
Auschwitz death marches ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Auschwitz death marches ("Auschwitz-Birkenau") → Holocaust ("NaziConcentrationCamps") → Holocaust ("NaziExterminationCamps") →	location
If This Is a Man ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Night ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Survival in Auschwitz ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → The Drowned and the Saved ("Auschwitz") →	mainSubject
Hermann van Pels ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Otto Frank ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Peter van Pels ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Primo Levi ("Auschwitz concentration camp") →	placeOfDetention
If This Is a Man ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Primo Levi's Auschwitz trilogy ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Survival in Auschwitz ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → The Periodic Table ("Auschwitz concentration camp") →	setting
Białystok Ghetto ("Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp") → Kraków Ghetto ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Łódź Ghetto ("Auschwitz-Birkenau") →	deportationDestination
Elie Wiesel ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Imre Kertész ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Viktor Frankl ("Auschwitz concentration camp") →	imprisonedIn
Holocaust → Nazi Germany ("Auschwitz") → Nazi camp system ("Auschwitz concentration camp complex") →	notableCamp
Auschwitz III-Monowitz ("Auschwitz concentration camp complex") → Auschwitz-Birkenau ("Nazi concentration camp system") → Oświęcim ("Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum area") →	partOf
Edith Frank ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Regina Jonas ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Rudolf Höss ("Auschwitz") →	placeOfDeath
LiberationOfAuschwitz ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → LiberationOfAuschwitz ("Auschwitz II-Birkenau") → LiberationOfAuschwitz ("Oświęcim") →	tookPlaceAt
Cesare ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Schindlerjuden ("Auschwitz concentration camp") →	associatedWith
Lesser Poland Voivodeship ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Lesser Poland Voivodeship ("Birkenau extermination camp") →	containsWorldWarIIHeritageSite
Auschwitz-Birkenau ("German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau") → Auschwitz-Birkenau ("Polish: Oświęcim-Brzezinka") →	hasLanguageVariantName
Oświęcim ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Oświęcim ("Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp") →	knownFor
Soviet 60th Army ("Auschwitz I main camp") → Soviet 60th Army ("Auschwitz II-Birkenau") →	liberated
International Holocaust Remembrance Day ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → International Holocaust Remembrance Day ("Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp") →	liberationCommemorated
Porajmos ("Auschwitz-Birkenau") → Porajmos ("Auschwitz "Gypsy family camp" (BIIe)") →	notableSite
Auschwitz III-Monowitz ("Auschwitz I") → Auschwitz III-Monowitz ("Auschwitz II-Birkenau") →	subcampOf
Otto Frank ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Viktor Frankl ("Auschwitz concentration camp") →	survived
Samudaripen ("Auschwitz concentration camp") → Samudaripen ("Auschwitz II-Birkenau") →	tookPlaceIn
Rudolf Höss ("Auschwitz II-Birkenau") →	commanded
Lesser Poland ("Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum") →	contains
Lesser Poland Voivodeship ("Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp") →	containsUNESCOWorldHeritageSite
Nazi occupation of the Netherlands ("Auschwitz concentration camp") →	deportationTo
Josef Mengele ("Auschwitz concentration camp") →	employer
Final Solution ("Auschwitz-Birkenau") →	exterminationCamp
Oświęcim ("Auschwitz") →	germanName
Oświęcim ("Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum") →	hasHeritageSite
LiberationOfAuschwitz ("Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum") →	hasMemorialSite
Oświęcim ("Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum") →	hasMuseum
Monowitz-Buna ("gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau") →	hasSelectionFor
Southern Poland ("Auschwitz-Birkenau") →	hasUNESCOSite
Oświęcim ("UNESCO World Heritage Site (Auschwitz-Birkenau)") →	heritageDesignation
Auschwitz-Birkenau ("Oświęcim") →	locatedIn
Buna-Werke ("Auschwitz") →	locatedNear
Auschwitz-Birkenau ("Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum") →	memorialStatus
Sinti ("deportations to Auschwitz-Birkenau") →	notableHistoricalEvent
Rudolf Höss ("Auschwitz concentration camp") →	placeOfExecution
Schindlerjuden ("Auschwitz concentration camp") →	savedFrom
Maus ("Auschwitz concentration camp") →	setInPlace
Night ("Auschwitz") →	settingLocation
Primo Levi's Auschwitz trilogy ("Auschwitz concentration camp") →	subject
German occupation of Poland ("Auschwitz concentration camp") →	usedFacility
Zyklon B ("Auschwitz concentration camp") →	usedIn
Josef Mengele ("Auschwitz concentration camp") →	workLocation
Primo Levi ("Auschwitz concentration camp") →	wroteAbout