Remember Auschwitz

Auschwitz was originally a Polish army barracks.
The camp at Auschwitz was initially established in 1940 to house Poles arrested by the Nazis after invasion in 1939.
Auschwitz-Birkenau is made up of three camps with different purposes.
Although no one knows exactly how many people met their death at the camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, estimates put the number at somewhere between 1.1 and 1.5 million.
The majority of those who met their death were Jewish; others were Gypsies, Russian POW's, Polish resistance fighters, homosexuals, political prisoners, disabled prisoners and criminals.
Over six million Jews were killed during the Second World War. More than three million were Polish Jews.
Almost three quarters of the prisoners were executed upon arrival.
In October 1944 an uprising at the Birkenau camp saw one of the gas chambers destroyed and several SS officers killed.
In January 1945 with the Red Army close to Auschwitz, 56,000 prisoners were evacuated by the Nazis and died on death marches. A few days later the remaining 7650 prisoners were liberated. They were either too sick or too weak to walk on the death marches.