The Auschwitz Concentration Camp is located in which country?

It is in Poland.

Oswiecim ( Auschwitz in German ) is in the country of Poland. It has about 40,000 inhabitants and is located seventy kilometers west of Krakow.

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During WWII the Nazi Germans occupied this location, building and operating concentration camps in the area. Between June 1941 and January 1945 about one million men, women and children perished in the three Auschwitz concentration camps – i.e. Auschwitz proper, Birkenau and Monowitz – and their more than forty sub-camps. At its peak the whole complex of the Auschwitz death camp was a deadly prison to some 150,000 inmates that were being either murdered outright or starved and worked to death.

By the way, in 1947, Poland founded the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on the site of Auschwitz, and in 1979, it was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Michael Preston

Took my youngest son there when he was 13, the same age his grandfather was when he and his family were taken there by train. His grandfather was a survivor , so moving and unbelievable at the same time.

Ian Swindale

I've not been to Auschwitz but I have been to Belsen and the memories of that will never leave me - truly awful (and that is a gross understatement)

Donna Smyth

Mans inhumanity to man its being going on for centuries and will go on for centuries more Be kind to each other and try and make 10 people smile or laugh a day it will make for a better world

Les Griffin

And it's so sad some don't believe this atrocity happened 😭

Stâvak Oppë Suave'llèna

A tear fell and my heart sunk when I visited this place in 2012. A history of human cruelty, very sad.

irynanj

I have been there in 1987,but after seeing the first room in museum had to leave my tourist group and wait them outside. It is hard to believe that people can do such a terrible thing to each other...

Elisabeth Chase

Jurek Kryst, irynaj was saying that is difficult to understand how a person (German or otherwise) could do such inhumane acts on another human being. Besides, the German had plenty of help from others to do their dirty work.

John Collins

sadly, this kind of savagery is all too common. When Hitler was warned that history would condemn Germany for his atrocities, he was said to reply "who remembers the slaughter of the Armenians?". Recall that Turkey killed as many as two million Armenians during the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Cambodians suffered on a comparable scale under Pol Pot in the '70's. Idi Amin in Uganda? Taliban? Isis? Only slightly less savage was the systematic starvation of the Irish in the 1840's and Chinese under Mao. We should remember Auschwitz not just as an example of hatred toward Jews, Romani and others but what happens when the power of savages goes unchallenged.

Ken Goodman

I visited in 1985. What stuck in my mind was how the Germans laid out the camp like an American auto plant. They had applied the principles of modern industrialization (efficiency, assembly line, mass production, input/output) to the killing process. This is what made the Holocaust different from other genocides.

Gale Em

Everyone should boycott the company that not only paid to build it but also provided all the drugs to torture and kill the occupants. That company is BAYER

steve

As many memorial signs declare, "NEVER AGAIN."

djs

joycekingsmith, Hate and trying to destroy a race. Horrifying.

Tehila Bak

I visited there and also my late husband and most of my grandchildren when they turned 17 years old. none of them will ever forget the visit during their whole lives.

Tehila Bak

my mother in law was murdered there in 1942 along with all the other 6 million Jews during the years of the second world war.

joycekingsmith

I read about Auschtwitz in Corrie Ten Boom's book, "The Hiding Place." It was a death house for Jews and anyone who protected Jews. Also gays, elderly, mentally challenged and anyone else who didn't fit well with Hitler's super race.