Auschwitz-Birkenau

GPTKB entity

Statements (59)
Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf concentration camp
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Auschwitz_II
gptkb:KL_Auschwitz_II
gptkbp:area about 140 hectares
gptkbp:commander gptkb:Rudolf_Höss
gptkbp:distanceFromAuschwitzI about 3 km
gptkbp:gasChambers yes
gptkbp:hasCrematorium yes
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Auschwitz-Birkenau
gptkbp:liberatedBy gptkb:Soviet_Red_Army
27 January 1945
gptkbp:location gptkb:Oświęcim,_Poland
gptkbp:memorial gptkb:International_Monument_to_the_Victims_of_Fascism
gptkbp:museum gptkb:Auschwitz-Birkenau_State_Museum
gptkbp:notableBuilding gptkb:United_States_Army
gptkb:railway_line
administration building
watchtowers
latrines
main gate
barbed wire fences
guard towers
SS quarters
children's barracks
crematorium ruins
disinfection building
gas chamber ruins
hospital barracks
kitchen buildings
ponds with human ashes
selection platform
storage barracks (Canada)
women's camp
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:Hungarian_Jewish_deportations_1944
gptkb:Death_Marches
medical experiments
gptkbp:notableInmate gptkb:Elie_Wiesel
gptkb:Viktor_Frankl
gptkb:Primo_Levi
Anne Frank
gptkbp:opened 1940
gptkbp:operatedBy gptkb:Nazi_Germany
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Holocaust
gptkbp:purpose gptkb:murder
forced labor
detention
extermination
gptkbp:railwayRamp yes
gptkbp:subcamps over 40
gptkbp:UNESCOWorldHeritageSite since 1979
gptkbp:victim gptkb:Jews
gptkb:Poles
gptkb:Roma
gptkb:Soviet_POWs
over 1.1 million
other minorities
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:אושוויץ
gptkb:Polonia
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5