Auschwitz Birkenau, Poland

This Nazi death camp is the ultimate symbol of state sponsored genocide. You can not go and not be deeply moved at the unimaginable horrors that happed here to over 1 Million people, predominantly Jews between 1940 and Jan'1945.

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This first camp was opened in 1940 near Oswiecim Poland
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The gas chamber and crematorium at Aushwitz 1. The hole in the ceiling was were the gas pellets were dropped to murder the people inside.
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The gas chamber and crematorium at Aushwitz 1. The hole in the ceiling was were the gas pellets were dropped to murder the people inside.
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The gas chamber and crematorium at Aushwitz 1. The hole in the ceiling was were the gas pellets were dropped to murder the people inside.
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The gas chamber and crematorium at Aushwitz 1.
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The largest public hanging of Polish prisoners took place here, July 19, 1943.
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Polish prisoners hung, July 19, 1943.
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roll calls were done here, the SS guard stood in the guardhouse.
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This first camp was opened in 1940 near Oswiecim Poland
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This first camp was opened in 1940 near Oswiecim Poland
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Auschwitz Birkenau, Poland