Founded:

1940

Dissolved:

1945

Homepage:

www.auschwitz.org/en/

Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original concentration camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combined concentration/extermination camp), Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labor camp to staff an IG Farben factory), and around 50 satellite camps.

Mentioned in

• A Glimpse into the German-Jewish Presence in Cyprus during the 1930s: Reflections on Arthur Ruppin’s 1935 Report (Evangelia Matthopoulou)
• A Home of Human Rights? The German-speaking Jewish Diaspora in France (1930s–1940s) (Patrick Farges)
• A Safe Haven Full of Contradictions: German-speaking Jews and Their New Lives in the United Kingdom (Andrea Hammel)
• Objects of Memory: The Heyd(t) Family’s Rosenthal Coffee Set (Felix Römer)
• Risa Pisko (1902–1995) (Amy Carney, Kendra Nordin Beato)
• Site of Transmigration and Long-time Diasporic Centre: The Netherlands as a Home to German-speaking Jews (Sietske van der Veen)
• Two out of 10,000: The Farnbacher Twins from Augsburg and the ‘Kindertransports’ to the United Kingdom (Alexander Weidle)