or Auschwitz-Birkenau
Nazi Germany's largest concentration camp and extermination camp, located in southern Poland (modern Oświȩcim).
It consisted of three camps (prison, extermination, and forced labour), established in 1940, 1941 (Birkenau), and 1942. Able-bodied Jewish prisoners were sent to a slave-labour camp, while the aged, the weak, and children and their mothers were killed. Some prisoners were also subjected to medical experiments, conducted by Holocaust .