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Also Known As | Oświęcim • Auschwitz-Birkenau • Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Nazi German Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940–-1945) • Birkenau |
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Date | 1940 - 1945 |
Did You Know?
- In 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz revolted, using smuggled gunpowder to set the crematorium on fire.
- Polish officer Witold Pilecki was voluntarily imprisoned at Auschwitz to gather intel.
- The number of deaths at Auschwitz exceeds the combined American and British death toll in World War II.
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