aushwitz(the holocaust)

• Operational from 1940, it was the largest camp established by the Germans during WWII
• It was a concentration camp, forced-labour camp and extermination camp known as Auschwitz I, II and III
• At its most overcrowded one toilet hut had to serve 7,000 inmates in Auschwitz II
• Policies of mass murder were implemented in 1941 and started in 1942
• The poison gas Zyklon B was used in the gas chambers
• At the height of genocide at Auschwitz in mid 1944 up to 10,000 people were being gassed a day
• More than a million people - the vast majority of them Jews - died before it was liberated in 1945