Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp

Auschwitz-Birkenau was a Nazi concentration and extermination camp established during World War II in occupied Poland. It served as a site where millions, primarily Jews, but also Roma, Poles, and others, were imprisoned, forced into forced labor, and systematically murdered as part of the Holocaust. The camp included gas chambers designed for mass killings and crematoria for disposal of bodies. Auschwitz has become a symbol of the Holocaust's atrocities, representing both the scale of human suffering and the importance of remembering this dark chapter in history.