Birkenau concentration camp

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Birkenau_concentration_camp

GPTKB entity

Statements (54)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	concentration camp
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs	gptkb:Auschwitz_II-Birkenau
gptkbp:capacity	about 100,000 prisoners
gptkbp:commander	gptkb:Richard_Baer gptkb:Rudolf_Höss gptkb:Josef_Kramer
gptkbp:commemoratedBy	gptkb:Auschwitz-Birkenau_State_Museum
gptkbp:distanceFromAuschwitzI	about 3 km
gptkbp:gasChambers	4
gptkbp:hasCrematorium	4
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Birkenau concentration camp
gptkbp:liberatedBy	gptkb:Soviet_Red_Army January 27, 1945
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Brzezinka,_Poland
gptkbp:memorial	gptkb:International_Holocaust_Remembrance_Day
gptkbp:notableBuilding	gptkb:Death_Gate gptkb:Effektenlager_(property_storage) gptkb:Family_camp_for_Theresienstadt_Jews gptkb:Sauna_(disinfection_building) Gypsy camp Canada (storage barracks) Men's camp Women's camp
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Hungarian_Jews_mass_deportation_1944 gptkb:Sonderkommando_uprising_October_1944
gptkbp:notableFeature	watchtowers railway ramp barbed wire fences brick barracks wooden barracks
gptkbp:notableFor	gptkb:Carl_Clauberg gptkb:Horst_Schumann gptkb:Josef_Mengele
gptkbp:notableInmate	gptkb:Elie_Wiesel gptkb:Primo_Levi Anne Frank
gptkbp:notableMission	medical experiments on prisoners sterilization experiments twin experiments infectious disease experiments
gptkbp:opened	1942
gptkbp:operatedBy	gptkb:Nazi_Germany
gptkbp:partOf	gptkb:Auschwitz_concentration_camp_complex
gptkbp:purpose	forced labor extermination
gptkbp:selectionProcess	arriving prisoners selected for labor or extermination
gptkbp:UNESCOWorldHeritageSite	gptkb:Auschwitz-Birkenau
gptkbp:victim	gptkb:Jews gptkb:Poles gptkb:Roma gptkb:Soviet_POWs over 1 million
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Holocaust_of_Thessaloniki_Jews
gptkbp:bfsLayer	6