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Bookmark or Share- Auschwitz | Holocaust EncyclopediaLocated in German-occupied Poland, Auschwitz consisted of three camps including a killing center. The camps were opened over the course of nearly two years, 1940-1942. Auschwitz closed in January 1945 with its liberation by the Soviet army. More than 1.1 million people died at Auschwitz, including nearly one million Jews.
- At the Killing Centers | Holocaust EncyclopediaThe Nazis established killing centers for efficient mass murder. Unlike concentration camps, which served primarily as detention and labor centers, killing centers (also referred to as "death camps") were almost exclusively "death factories."
- Auschwitz: Concentration Camp, Facts, Location | HISTORYAuschwitz, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. Located in southern Poland, Auschwitz initially served as a detention...
- Deportations to Killing Centers | Holocaust EncyclopediaOn January 20, 1942, SS, Nazi Party, and German state officials gathered at the Wannsee Conference, held in a southwestern suburb of Berlin. There, they coordinated the deportation of European Jews to killing centers (also known as “extermination camps”) in German-occupied Poland.
- Extermination camp | History, Map, & Facts | BritannicaExtermination camp, Nazi German concentration camp specializing in the mass annihilation of unwanted persons in the Third Reich and conquered territories. The victims were mostly Jews but also included Roma, Slavs, homosexuals, alleged mental defectives, and others.
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