Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945) World Heritage Site

Official name

Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945) | UNESCO

Country

Poland | Map

Continent

Europe

Location

Oswiecim County, Lesser Poland (Malopolska) Voivodship (formerly Bielsko-Biala)
50.3880° Lat, 19.1750° Lon | Map

Code

31

Time Zone

Europe/Warsaw (CET, +0100)

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Category

Cultural

Description

Inscribed 1979. The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest in the Third Reich. According to historical investigations, 1.5 million people, among them a great number of Jews, were systematically starved, tortured and murdered in this camp, the symbol of humanity's cruelty to its fellow human beings in the 20th century.