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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
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