Auschwitz I

Auschwitz I

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Template:Photomontage Top: Gate to Auschwitz I with its sign ("work sets you free")Template:PbBottom: Auschwitz II-Birkenau gatehouse. The train track, in operation from May to October 1944, led toward the gas chambers.
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Coordinates
Known for	The Holocaust
Location	German-occupied Poland
Built by	IG Farben
Operated by	Nazi Germany and the Schutzstaffel
Commandant	See list
Original use	Army barracks
Operational	May 1940 – January 1945
Inmates	Mainly Jews, Poles, Romani, Soviet prisoners of war
Number of inmates	At least 1.3 millionTemplate:Sfn
Killed	At least 1.1 millionTemplate:Sfn
Liberated by	Soviet Union, 27 January 1945
Notable inmates	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
Notable books	{{#if: Man's Search for Meaning (1946) If This Is a Man (1947) Night (1960) Maus (1980–1991)| Man's Search for Meaning (1946) If This Is a Man (1947) Night (1960) Maus (1980–1991) }}
Website	auschwitz.org/en/
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Dates

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Location

GPS: 50.273372/18.695233

Street Address: Więźniów Oświęcimia 20

District: Ligota Zabrska

City: Oświęcim

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Country: Polska

Company Names

• Deutsche Ausrüstungswerke