Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Auschwitz-Birkenau_extermination_camp

GPTKB entity

Statements (74)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	Nazi concentration and extermination camp
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Auschwitz_II
gptkbp:area	about 140 hectares
gptkbp:closed	1945
gptkbp:commander	gptkb:Rudolf_Höss
gptkbp:coordinates	50.0342°N 19.2097°E
gptkbp:gasChambers	Yes
gptkbp:hasCrematorium	Yes
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp
gptkbp:liberatedBy	gptkb:Soviet_Red_Army 27 January 1945
gptkbp:locatedIn	gptkb:Oświęcim,_Poland
gptkbp:memorialAndMuseum	gptkb:Auschwitz-Birkenau_State_Museum
gptkbp:memorialEstablished	1947
gptkbp:notableBuilding	gptkb:United_States_Army gas chambers watchtowers crematoria railway ramp barbed wire fences
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Holocaust gptkb:Death_Marches liberation by Soviet Army
gptkbp:notableInmate	gptkb:Elie_Wiesel gptkb:Primo_Levi Anne Frank
gptkbp:notablePerpetrators	gptkb:Richard_Baer gptkb:Josef_Mengele gptkb:Rudolf_Höss gptkb:SS_guards gptkb:Arthur_Liebehenschel gptkb:Fritz_Hartjenstein gptkb:SS-Totenkopfverbände
gptkbp:notableSurvivor	gptkb:Elie_Wiesel gptkb:Ruth_Klüger gptkb:Viktor_Frankl gptkb:Primo_Levi gptkb:Henry_Orenstein gptkb:Lola_Rein_Kaufman gptkb:Eva_Mozes_Kor gptkb:Renee_Firestone gptkb:Samuel_Willenberg gptkb:Alicia_Appleman-Jurman gptkb:Anita_Lasker-Wallfisch gptkb:Esther_Bejarano gptkb:Gena_Turgel gptkb:Halina_Birenbaum gptkb:Imre_Kertész gptkb:Józef_Szajna gptkb:Kitty_Hart-Moxon gptkb:Livia_Bitton-Jackson gptkb:Miriam_Mozes gptkb:Rena_Finder gptkb:Rena_Kornreich_Gelissen gptkb:Roman_Kent gptkb:Tadeusz_Borowski
gptkbp:opened	1942
gptkbp:operatedBy	gptkb:Nazi_Germany
gptkbp:partOf	gptkb:Auschwitz_concentration_camp_complex
gptkbp:purpose	gptkb:murder
gptkbp:subcamps	over 40
gptkbp:UNESCOWorldHeritageSite	1979 Yes
gptkbp:usedFor	forced labor medical experiments extermination
gptkbp:victim	gptkb:Jews gptkb:Poles gptkb:Roma gptkb:Soviet_POWs over 1.1 million other minorities
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:SS-Totenkopfverbände
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6