Where was Auschwitz concentration camp?
Auschwitz concentration camp was one of the biggest Nazi German extermination camps, along with a huge number of other concentration camps, containing three main camps and forty to fifty other sub-camps. Auschwitz basically is the German name for a close by town of Oswiecim, placed approximately sixty kilometers west of Krakow based in southern Poland. In the early 1940, Nazi Germany constructed many concentration as well as extermination camps in this region. Auschwitz camps were a key part in the perpetration of the Holocaust. Approximately 1.1 million people were killed in this region, with 90% of them being Jews. The three key concentration camps were Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II and Auschwitz III. The total number of people killed in these camps is till date not known; though it is said approximately 1-1.6 million people were killed.
