This included Auschwitz, located in southern Poland. A complex of more than 40 subcamps, it was the largest of all the Nazi camps. Concentration camps and extermination centers were part of the ...

This interactive map explores the complex and surprising evolution of Auschwitz, the scene of one of the worst crimes in human history. This was where more than a million men, women and children ...

Eva Speter, Hungarian Jewish prisoner allowed to travel to neutral Switzerland "Auschwitz Protocols" included maps showing location of crematoria and gas chambers at Birkenau From early 1944 ...

The dwindling numbers offer a stark representation of the declining population of survivors who are still able to tell their stories. Eva Szepesi, 92, is traveling this week to the Nazi ...

Located on the opposite side of the Sola River from the Auschwitz camp, Oswiecim has an old town center with a pleasant market square, several imposing churches, and a medieval castle and tower.

crushing concentration and extermination camps of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau are located in the city of Oswiecim. More than 1.1 million people died in these camps' barracks, hospitals ...

But it soon became clear to Commandant Höss that this was not an ideal location to commit mass murder. Józef Paczynski, a Polish political prisoner at Auschwitz, explains why: Crematorium ...