Blog - History and Information about Auschwitz Birkenau

Much of what we know about Auschwitz comes from those who survived it. Their memoirs,...

When the Soviet army reached Auschwitz on 27 January 1945, it found about 7,000 prisoners,...

Most visitors to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial travel from Kraków. The town of Oświęcim, where the...

Soviet prisoners of war were among the first victims of mass killing at Auschwitz. In...

The people deported to Auschwitz were told to bring luggage. Many believed they were being...

In the summer of 1941 a Polish Franciscan friar, prisoner number 16670, stepped forward during...

Block 11 in the main camp of Auschwitz was known among prisoners as the “Death...

The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored murder of six million Jews by Nazi Germany and...

Auschwitz is sometimes described in newspapers, films or social media as a “Polish camp” or...

Blog – History and Information about Auschwitz Birkenau