The notorious gates at Auschwitz, Oswiecim, bearing the inscription 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work Makes You Free), Poland.
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Auschwitz I, Oswiecim, near Krakow, Poland. Europe.More information:
The notorious gates at Auschwitz, Oswiecim, bearing the inscription 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work Makes You Free), Poland. The town of Oswiecim, forty miles west of Krakow, Poland was the site of the largest Nazi concentration camp in Poland. Established on two sites Auschwitz 1 was largely used as a slave labour camp for political prisoners and other opponents of the Nazi regime.The entrance to the camp bears the notorious motto, Arbeit Macht Frei, 'Work Makes You Free'. Birkenau; Auschwitz 2, was an extermination camp where transported in cattle trucks from all over Europe 1.5 million prisoners were murdered by the Nazis in the gas chambers. By 1942 the holocaust was at its height when up to 20, 000 people were killed each day and their corpses incinerated in gas chambers or buried in mass graves.