7/7/2023 0 Comments The Deportation of Jews from the Lodz Ghetto to KL Auschwitz ... by Andrzej Strzelecki![]() ![]() ![]() Around 90 percent of those killed were Jewish approximately 1 in 6 Jews killed in the Holocaust died at the camp. An estimated 1.3 million people were sent to the camp, of whom at least 1.1 million died. From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe, where they were killed with the pesticide Zyklon B. ![]() The first extermination of prisoners took place in September 1941, and Auschwitz II–Birkenau went on to become a major site of the Nazi Final Solution to the Jewish Question. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combination concentration/extermination camp), Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labor camp to staff an IG Farben factory), and 45 satellite camps.Īuschwitz I was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940. Auschwitz Birkenau, German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940–1945)Īuschwitz concentration camp ( German : Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, also KZ Auschwitz ) was a network of German Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. ![]()
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