🕯️ Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial
Poland
About This Sacred Site
Auschwitz-Birkenau, located near Oświęcim in southern Poland, is the largest of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camps. Between 1940 and 1945, over 1.1 million people — the vast majority European Jews — were murdered here. Today the site is preserved as a UNESCO World Heritage memorial and museum. Visitors from around the world come to pay respects, and it functions as a sacred site of remembrance for Jewish, Christian, Roma, and other communities.
Key Facts
- •Over 1.1 million people, predominantly Jews, were killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau
- •The camp complex covered over 40 square kilometers at its peak
- •Liberated by the Soviet Red Army on January 27, 1945 — now commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day
- •Designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979
- •The site includes the preserved barracks, gas chambers, and personal belongings of victims
Location
Coordinates: 50.0343, 19.1783
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