Auschwitz is a town that looks exactly the same as it did in 1940.
Auschwitz is the prime symbol of the Holocaust.
Auschwitz was established in 1940.
Prisoners were transported from all over Europe by railroad.
At the entrence of the the camp a sign read "work makes one free."
At the complex in Auschwitz 405,000 prisoners were recored as laborers (between 1940-1945).
340,000 died through executions, beatings, starvation and sickness.
Dwaefs and twins were used for experiments at the hands of joseph mengele also known as the "angel of death."
Finally when the soviet armies went into Auschwitz on January 27, 1945 they found 7600 survivors left at the camp, but more than 58,000 went on a final death march.
In 1946 Poland founded a museum at the site of the concentration camp to a tribute to its victims.