in the hospital, Barrack (Block) 10. This is about 4 miles (approximately 6.5 kilometers) from the Main Camp. No other museum in the world offers this kind of service. At the time when those camps were being established, the regular state of Poland did not exist. Individuals marked as unfit for work were never officially registered as Auschwitz inmates. The routine of the Sonderkommando of the AuschwitzII (Birkenau) killing centeris a representative example of the larger phenomenon. Most patients admitted to hospitals did the same three or four months later. Those judged best able to work were selected for labor. Facilities were poor and overcrowding was common. 2. Adolf Hitler said in Mein Kampf: We finally put a stop to the colonial and trade policy of pre-war times and pass over to the territorial policy of the future. Visiting The authentic Memorial consists of two parts of the former camp: Auschwitz and Birkenau. It consisted of three camps (prison, extermination, and forced labour), established in 1940, 1941 (Birkenau), and 1942. Some subcamps, such as Freudenthal and Bruenn (Brno), were located in Moravia. 100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Periodically, prisoners underwent selection. History | Birkenau Concentration Camp Typically, inmates in prisoner of war camps were allowed to send and receive letters from their families, although this process could take several weeks or months. Due to these two roles and the predominant number of Jews and Poles in the general number of victims of the camp its history may be divided into two periods: 1940 mid 1942, when most of those deported and killed there were Poles. The liberators also discovered mounds of corpses, hundreds of thousands of pieces of clothing and pairs of shoes and seven tons of human hair that had been shaved from detainees before their liquidation. It is estimated that the SS and police deported at least 1.3 million people to the Auschwitz camp complex between 1940 and 1945. It will be also possible to implement the Preservation Master Plan in order to preserve the camp remains: 155 objects (including barracks and watch towers amongst others) situated in the original area of 191 hectares (472 acres), as well as 300 ruins (including the ruins of the gas chambers), many kilometers of roads and fences, and other elements of the camp infrastructure, as well as archive documents and collections. Less than a month later, on June 14, German authorities in occupied Poland deported 728 Polish prisoners from a prison in Tarnow to Auschwitz. Auschwitz Camp Complex: Maps | Holocaust Encyclopedia Auschwitz Birkenau - UNESCO World Heritage Centre These camps were specifically built near railway lines to make transportation easier. SS What is the difference between the Auschwitz - Auschwitz Birkenau concentration complex, consisting of camps of various nature and destination (e.g. Most were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The largest mass murder installations in occupied Europe in the form of gas chambers were created in Birkenau, where the Nazis murdered most of the Jewish deportees. Over one thousand prisoner of war camps existed throughout the Third Reich during the Second World War. In total almost 50 sub-camps of Auschwitz were established between 1942-1945. At Auschwitz I, SS physicians carried out medical experiments in the hospital, Barrack (Block) 10. In March new gas chambers and crematoria opened at Auschwitz-Birkenau, dramatically increasing the camp's killing capacity. Only at the Auschwitz Memorial, however, is it possible not only to get to know the history of the camp operation and gain direct access to the first-hand accounts of witnesses, but also to see the evidence of the Extermination with our own eyes: the ruins of the gas chambers, crematoria and other leftover camp remains. When construction began in October 1941, it was supposed to be a camp for 125 thousand prisoners of war. All were apprehended and killed. Those actions, having a form of pre-planned extermination campaigns, met all the prerequisites of genocide. Bloomington: Indiana University Press; Warsaw: Ksiazka i Wiedza, 1993. Birkenau (Auschwitz II) was established in October 1941, three kilometers from Auschwitz. After the final evacuation almost 9 thousand prisoners, mostly the ill and exhausted left behind in the camp by Germans, found themselves in an uncertain situation.