page_title: Auschwitz concentration camp
hierarchical_section_title: Auschwitz concentration camp
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. KZ Auschwitz-Birkenau, alte Frau und Kinder Zentralbild/Repro, 28.6.1960 "Dokumentarfotos zu den Verbrechen des Judenmörders Eichmann. Für das Zusammenziehen der jüdischen Bevölkerung in Ghettos auf dem Gebiet der Tschechoslowakei und für den Transport zahlloser jüdischer Männer, Frauen und Kinder verschiedener Nationalitäten in die Vernichtungslager, wie z.B. Auschwitz-Birkenau, ist Judenmörder EICHMANN an führender Stelle mitverantwortlich gewesen. Die dokumentarischen Fotos gehören zu einer Anzahl Aufnahmen, die von dem aus Nordböhmen stammenden SS-Mann Bernhard WALTER mit Eichmanns Genehmigung in Auschwitz angefertigt wurden ["Auschwitz-Album"] - Selbst vor Greisen und Kindern machten die faschistischen Verbrecher vom Schlage Eichmanns nicht Halt. Hier Kinder und eine alte Frau auf dem Wege in die Todesbaracke (Auschwitz-Birkenau)." Information added by Wikimedia users.English: Woman with children in Auschwitz II in German-occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. The photograph is part of the Auschwitz Album; see Yad Vashem. English translation of the German description: "Documentary photos of Eichmann's crimes, murderer of the Jews. Eichmann and his officers were responsible for the murder of most of the Jewish population in the ghettos of the territory of Czechoslovakia, and for the transport of countless Jewish men, women and children of different nationalities to the extermination camps, for example Auschwitz-Birkenau. The documentary photos are part of the pictures from SS-Mann Bernhard Walter (from North Bohemia) and were admitted by Eichmann. Fascist criminals like Eichmann did not even halt for the elderly or children. Here, children and an old woman are on the way to the death barracks of Auschwitz-Birkenau."
context_page_description: Auschwitz was a group of concentration camps run by Nazi Germany during World War II. There were three large camps at Auschwitz, and 3 smaller ones. Auschwitz I was the main camp, which held prisoners from 1940-1945. Auschwitz II was the largest extermination camp run by Nazi Germany during The Holocaust. Auschwitz III and the subcamps were forced labor camps where prisoners worked as slaves. These camps were established because there were too many Polish prisoners and not enough room in "local" prisons to hold them in.
  The Auschwitz camps were in a town in Poland called Oświęcim. In German, Auschwitz was called Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, which means "Auschwitz concentration camp."
  The Schutzstaffel, led by Heinrich Himmler, ran the death camps and concentration camps in Nazi Germany.
  No one knows exactly how many people were sent to Auschwitz, or how many died there. However, historians estimate that between 1940 and 1945, the Nazis sent at least 1.3 million people to Auschwitz. About 1.1 million of these people died or were killed at Auschwitz.
context_section_description: Auschwitz was a group of concentration camps run by Nazi Germany during World War II. There were three large camps at Auschwitz, and 3 smaller ones. Auschwitz I was the main camp, which held prisoners from 1940-1945. Auschwitz II (Birkenau) was the largest extermination camp (death camp) run by Nazi Germany during The Holocaust. Auschwitz III (Monowitz) and the subcamps were forced labor camps where prisoners worked as slaves. These camps were established because there were too many Polish prisoners and not enough room in "local" prisons to hold them in.
  The Auschwitz camps were in a town in Poland called Oświęcim. ("Auschwitz" is the German name for "Oświęcim.") In German, Auschwitz was called Konzentrationslager Auschwitz (KZ Auschwitz), which means "Auschwitz concentration camp."
  The Schutzstaffel (SS), led by Heinrich Himmler, ran the death camps and concentration camps in Nazi Germany.
  No one knows exactly how many people were sent to Auschwitz, or how many died there. However, historians estimate that between 1940 and 1945, the Nazis sent at least 1.3 million people to Auschwitz. About 1.1 million of these people died or were killed at Auschwitz.
caption: Famous photo of Hungarian Jewish children and an elderly woman on the way to the gas chambers of Auschwitz II (1944).
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