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When did construction begin on Auschwitz II-Birkenau?
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Auschwitz
The entrance gates to the Auschwitz concentration camp, near Kraków, Poland; the sign reads “Arbeit Macht Frei” (“Work Liberates”).
Construction on Auschwitz II, also known as Birkenau, began in October 1941.1