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Barbed wire fences and a brick building at Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland, seen through a snowy ground and overcast sky.
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Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

museum, Oświęcim, Poland
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Barbed wire fences and a brick building at Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Poland, seen through a snowy ground and overcast sky.
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum Part of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, founded in 1946 at the former Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex in Poland.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is located in Oświęcim, Poland, at the site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp complex known as Auschwitz. Established in 1940, Auschwitz was the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp, becoming a symbol of the Holocaust.12

The camp complex consisted of three main parts: Auschwitz I (the prison camp), Auschwitz II (Birkenau, the extermination camp), and Auschwitz III (a slave-labour camp). Between 1.1 and 1.5 million people, predominantly Jews, were murdered at Auschwitz. The museum, founded in 1946, serves as a memorial to the victims of World War II. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1979.12

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