This was known as the largest camp historically, established by the Germans. It was a camp complex that had a concentration camp, an extermination camp, and a forced labor camp. It was located near Krakow, Poland. The Auschwitz camp complex was made up of three large camps: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II (Birkenau), and Auschwitz III (Monowitz).
The entrance to Auschwitz I had the words Arbeit macht frei, "work makes free. " This inscription was stolen by five unknown persons on Friday, December 18, 2009 and recovered by the police just four days later.
The camp prisoners went out to work during the day for the buildings or the camp, with marching music played by an orchestra. This administrative center of the entire complex. It began to be built in May 1940, from the brick barracks of the Polish army. The first prisoners in the camp were 728 Polish political prisoners from Tarnów. Later, Soviet prisoners of war, common German prisoners, "antisocial" elements and homosexuals were also brought there. From the first moment, Jewish prisoners also arrived.
Block 11 of Auschwitz also known as "prison in prison"; punishments were applied. Some of them consisted of confinement for several days in a cell too small to sit, there are 4 cells of one square meter that were occupied by up to five prisoners at a time. Others were executed, hanged or starved.
It should be noted that approximately one million people lost their lives at Auschwitz; These were mostly Jewish. The four largest gas chambers could hold 2,000 people at a time.
Victims who were released from immediate death upon selection for work were systematically stripped of their individual identity. Their heads were shaved and an identification number was tattooed on their left forearm. Men were forced to wear striped trousers and jackets and women wore work clothes. They both received shoes or even clogs that were not the right size. They had no change of clothes and slept in the same clothes they worked with.
