Auschwitz

Corridor between the internment area and guards area at Auschwitz. Auschwitz-Birkenau (Konzentrationslager Auschwitz was the largest of Nazi Germany's concentration camps. Its remains are located in Poland approximately 50 kilometers west of Kraków and 286 kilometers south from Warsaw. The camp took its name from the nearby town of Oświęcim (Auschwitz in German). Birkenau, the German translation o…