The camps at Auschwitz

There were three separate camps at Auschwitz: Auschwitz I, a concentration camp; Birkenau, a death camp, and Auschwitz III, a labour camp.

Combined, Auschwitz-Birkenau became the largest Nazi death camp in 1942.

Approximately 70 to 75 per cent of prisoners were murdered shortly after arriving at the camp.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum estimates that among the people sent to Auschwitz there were at least: 1,100,000 Jews, 140,000 Poles, 20,000 gypsies and 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war. Intellectual and resistance prisoners, German criminals, homosexuals and other "anti-social elements" all passed through the camps.