World Heritage Identification Number: 31
World Heritage since: 1979
Category: Cultural Heritage
Transboundary Heritage: No
Endangered Heritage: No
Country: 🇵🇱 Poland
Continent: Europe
UNESCO World Region: Europe and North America
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Auschwitz Birkenau: A Monument to Humanity's Cruelty
The Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp, inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979, stands as a poignant testament to one of the darkest chapters in human history. Located in Oświęcim, Poland, the complex spanned over 40 concentration and extermination camps that operated under Nazi Germany during World War II and the Holocaust.
More to come…UNESCO Description of the World Heritage Site
The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest in the Third Reich. According to historical investigations, 1.5 million people, among them a great number of Jews, were systematically starved, tortured and murdered in this camp, the symbol of humanity's cruelty to its fellow human beings in the 20th century.
Encyclopedia Record: Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz, also known as Oświęcim, was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers, Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labour camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben, and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution to the Jewish question.Additional Site Details
Area: 191.97 hectares
Coordinates: 50.0388888889 , 19.175
