Auschwitz

Holocaust death camp

Auschwitz was a complex of Nazi concentration and extermination camps in German-occupied Poland during World War II, where approximately 1.1 million people—mostly Jews—were murdered between 1940 and 1945.

The name has become synonymous with the Holocaust and industrial-scale genocide: Auschwitz stands as a reminder of humanity's capacity for evil.

The site is now a museum and memorial.

Holocaust

concentration camp

Facility for mass political detention

gas chambersSealed execution spaces using poison
crematoriumCorpse incineration facility
genocideSystematic annihilation of a people

extermination · Nazis · prisoners · barracks · selections · Zyklon B · death camp · transports · tattooing · chimneys

symbolism

evil

Profound moral wickedness

atrocityUnforgivable mass cruelty
inhumanityExtreme cruelty toward others
never againPermanent refusal to repeat

horror · tragedy · barbarism · darkness · warning · conscience · moral lesson · unfathomable · trauma · collective memory

memorial

museum

Public exhibit space

memorialThing preserving remembrance
survivorsThose still alive after
testimonySworn statement as evidence

remembrance · pilgrimage · preservation · education · guided tours · exhibits · artifacts · photographs · documentation · commemoration

testimony

survivor

One still alive after

witnessOne who attests
memoirWritten personal recollection
oral historyRecorded interviews about the past

Elie Wiesel · documentation · interview · remembering · storytelling · trauma · silence · bearing witness · legacy · generational

Auschwitz

concentration camp

evil

museum

survivor

Auschwitz

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