Auschwitz-Birkenau info?

Question

Links would help:

-country the camp was located
-years of existence
-number of people affected(imprisoned and what countries, number killed, number of survivers, etc.)
-description
-number of crematoriums
-number of buildings
-interesting facts

Answer 1

~Although it is pretty certain that Oswiecim was in Nazi occupied Poland, the rest of the information is NOT terribly accurate, reliable or correct. Just pop Birkenau or Auschwitz II (not to be confused with Auschwitz I or Auschwitz III) or even Nazi extermination camps (or death camps - not to be confused with concentration camps) into a search engine and see all the goodies you get. However, any source that refers to the camps - concentration or extermination - in terms of Jewish victims to the exclusion of the others, should be considered with great skepticism.

Interesting facts? I guess that depends on your point of view. In my mind the more interesting facts are:

Himmler and Heydrich ordered the end of operation 14f13 in 1943, long before the liberation of any of the death camps by the Soviets or US/British troops,

Jasenovac is seldom mentioned in discussion of the Holocaust (probably because, even though it had the 3rd highest kill rate, its victims were Serbs, not Jews)

Of the 6 million Jews killed in the war, less than half died in the death camps but mention is seldom made of the 14 or so million others (non-Jews) who died in the combined death and concentration camps

The almost total annihilation of the Serbs and Roma in the death camps is all but ignored or forgotten

The millions of Ukraines, Soviets and Poles who were killed before they even got to the camps apparently never existed, according to most holocaust histories.

The Nazis modeled the concentration camps on Millard Fillmore's US concentration camps for the Cherokee in Alabama and Tennessee (he called them reservations - the term concentration camps wasn't invented until the British came up with it in 1898 in South Africa) and that the genocide campaigns against the Jews, the Serbs, the Slavs and the Romas (to mention a few) were inspired by the activities of the US Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Chelmno, the 1st death camp, opened in late 1941 and the other 6 (including Jasenovac - but again, most sources don't include Jasenovac) were up and running by the fall of '42 and were essentially shut down by Himmler and Heydrich by the Fall of '43.

The crematoria in all the camps (concentration and death) were in full operation until the end of the war and the liberation of the camps, not to hide the bodies of victims of execution or as a cover up the Final Solution, but as a sanitary and expedient means of disposal of the bodies of the dead, who had died of starvation, disease, malnutrition, physical abuse and summary execution for misconduct or because they had outlived their usefulness as slave laborers, medical guinea pigs, prostitutes, or whatever other tasks had been assigned them.

Answer 2

Try wikipedia or, even better, the camp's own site;-
http://www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl/
or try;-
http://www.auschwitz.org.pl/html/eng/start/index.php
and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/animations/auschwitz_map/index.shtml

Anne Frank, her sister Margot and her parents were transported to Auschwitz in September 1944, on the last train to leave Westerbork Camp, Holland for Auschwitz. Otto Frank was placed in Auschwitz I - a labour camp - whilst Anne, Margot & Edith Frank were imprisoned in Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz II). Anne & Margot were transferred to Bergen-Belsen Camp, in Germany, in October 1944, where they died of typhus and starvation, in March 1945. Mrs Frank died of starvation in January 1945.
Otto Frank survived but only just. He was amongst a few remaining prisoners (the others having been forced to march to camps in Germany as the Russians closed in) still at Auschwitz I and due to be executed, when it was liberated by Russian troops on January 27th, 1945.

Answer 3

I think Anne Frank went to that camp.

Answer 4

No, Anne Frank was there for like a couple weeks then they moved her to Bergen-Belsen.

Answer 5

To lazy to look up links but it was in Poland.