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Oswiecim, Poland
The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest in the Third Reich. According to historical investigations, 1.5 million people, among them a great number of Jews, were systematically starved, tortured and murdered in this camp, the symbol of humanity's cruelty to its fellow human beings in the 20th century.
The Museum is open all year, seven days a week, except January 1, December 25, and Easter Sunday. Entry hours: December 07:30-14:00; January and November 07:30-15:00; February 07:30-16:00; March and October 07:30-17:00; April, May, and September 07:30-18:00; June, July, and August 07:30-19:00. Visitors may remain on site for 90 minutes after the last entrance hour. During earlier daytime slots listed in the regulations, entry is available only with a Museum educator.
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Auschwitz, also known as Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers, Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labour camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben, and dozens of subcamps.
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