Birkenau extermination camp

Birkenau, also known as Auschwitz II, was part of the Auschwitz complex in Poland and served primarily as a Nazi extermination camp during the Holocaust. It was equipped with gas chambers designed for mass murder, where millions of Jews, Romani people, disabled individuals, and others were systematically killed. Birkenau also functioned as a concentration camp with barracks for forced labor and significant infrastructure supporting the Holocaust’s genocide. It is a symbol of the industrial scale of Nazi brutality, and today it stands as a memorial and a reminder of the atrocities committed there during World War II.