What happened at Auschwitz

Auschwitz was a concentration and extermination camp established by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was located in occupied Poland and was the largest of the Nazi concentration camps.

At Auschwitz, over 1.1 million people, primarily Jews, were killed in gas chambers, through starvation, disease, forced labor, and medical experiments. The camp also held political prisoners, Roma people, Soviet prisoners of war, and others deemed enemies of the Nazi regime.

Auschwitz became a symbol of the Holocaust and the systematic genocide carried out by the Nazis during World War II. The camp was liberated by Soviet troops in January 1945, and evidence of the atrocities committed there led to the Nuremberg Trials and the recognition of the Holocaust as a crime against humanity.