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| = Auschwitz I = | | = Auschwitz I = |
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| {{Infobox concentration camp
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| | name = Auschwitz<br />{{small|{{native name|de|Konzentrationslager Auschwitz}}}}
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| | type = [[Nazi concentration camps|Nazi concentration]] and [[extermination camp]] (1940–1945)
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| | image = {{Photomontage
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| |position =
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| |photo1a = Auschwitz I (22 May 2010).jpg
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| |photo2a = Birkenau múzeum - panoramio (cropped).jpg
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| |size = 250
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| |spacing = 0
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| |color = #FFFFFF
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| |border = 0
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| |foot_montage = }}
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| | caption = ''Top:'' Gate to Auschwitz I with its {{lang|de|[[Arbeit macht frei]]}} sign ("work sets you free"){{pb}}''Bottom:'' Auschwitz II-Birkenau gatehouse. The train track, in operation from May to October 1944, led toward the gas chambers.<ref>{{cite web |title=The unloading ramps and selections |url=http://auschwitz.org/en/history/auschwitz-and-shoah/the-unloading-ramps-and-selections |publisher=Auschwitz-Birkenau State |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190121220003/http://auschwitz.org/en/history/auschwitz-and-shoah/the-unloading-ramps-and-selections |archive-date=21 January 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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| | known for = [[The Holocaust]]
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| | location = [[Occupation of Poland (1939–1945)|German-occupied Poland]]
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| | coordinates = {{coord|50|02|09|N|19|10|42|E|region:PL-MA_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}
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| | built by = [[IG Farben]]
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| | operated by = [[Nazi Germany]] and the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]''
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| | commandant = ''[[Nazi concentration camp commandant|See list]]''
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| | original use = Army barracks
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| | construction =
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| | in operation = May 1940 – January 1945
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| | gas chambers =
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| | prisoner type = Mainly Jews, Poles, Romani, Soviet prisoners of war
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| | inmates = At least 1.3 million{{sfn|Piper|2000b|p=230}}
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| | killed = At least 1.1 million{{sfn|Piper|2000b|p=230}}
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| | liberated by = Soviet Union, 27 January 1945
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| | notable inmates = [[:Category:Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners|Auschwitz prisoners]]: [[Adolf Burger]], [[Edith Eger]], [[Anne Frank]], [[Viktor Frankl]], [[Imre Kertész]], [[Maximilian Kolbe]], [[Primo Levi]], [[Fritz Löhner-Beda]], [[Irène Némirovsky]], [[Tadeusz Pietrzykowski]], [[Witold Pilecki]], [[Liliana Segre]], [[Edith Stein]], [[Simone Veil]], [[Rudolf Vrba]], [[Alfréd Wetzler]], [[Elie Wiesel]], [[Else Ury]], [[Eddie Jaku]], [[Władysław Bartoszewski]]
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| | notable books = {{flatlist|
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| *''[[Man's Search for Meaning]]'' (1946)
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| *''[[If This Is a Man]]'' (1947)
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| *''[[Night (memoir)|Night]]'' (1960)
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| *''[[Maus]]'' (1980–1991)}}
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| | website = {{URL|auschwitz.org/en/}}
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| | embedded = {{Designation list
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| |designation1 = WHS
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| |designation1_offname = Auschwitz Birkenau, German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940–1945)
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| |designation1_date = 1979 (3rd [[World Heritage Committee|session]])
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| |designation1_type = Cultural
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| |designation1_criteria = vi
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| |designation1_number = [https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/31 31]
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| |designation1_free1name = Region
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| |designation1_free1value = Europe and North America
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| == Dates == | | == Dates == |
