Birkenau
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Located close to the industrial town of Oświęcim in southern Poland (in a portion of the country that was taken over by Germany at the beginning of World War II), Auschwitz-Birkenau, is the most infamous of the nazi camps known as Auschwitz. It was a immense forced labour and extermination camps at the centre of a network of more than 40 camps. Birkenau began operating as a death camp between the dates of March 1942 and January 1945 and registered with a total 1.3 million inmates. It was liberated by the Soviet Union on the 27th of January 1945 and It was found that at least 1.1 million were killed and burned. Elie Wiesel and his father where first separated from his mother and sisters at this camp. His mother and younger sister where burned on the first night, but he later discovered that his two older sisters managed to survive.
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