Concentration camp, Poland, Auschwitz, Birkenau
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Carsten Klein / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
KG65H1File size:
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4762 x 5829 px | 40.3 x 49.4 cm | 15.9 x 19.4 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
1997Location:
Auschwitz, PolandMore information:
concentration camp in Auschwitz, Birkenau in Poland in Silesia, In the years 1940–1945 approximately 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz. The largest group, c. 1.1 million, were the Jews, next were the Poles (140–150, 000), the Roma (23, 000) and Soviet prisoners of war (15, 000). Other nationalities were represented by c. 25, 000 people, ranging from several thousand (Czechs, Belarusians, the French, Germans and Russians) to several hundred (Yugoslavs and Ukrainians) or just dozens. At least 1.1 million people died in Auschwitz, the vast majority of whom were Jews (c. 1 million), next the Poles (70–75, 000), the Roma (21, 000) and Soviet prisoners of war (14, 000). Some 10–15, 000 of the victims had other nationalities.