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Auschwitz-Birkenau (1945)

Liberated 27 Jan 1945 — Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi extermination camp. About 1.1 million people were murdered here; roughly one million of them were Jews. Remember.

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Site of memory
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End of WW2 in Europe (chapter 13 of WW2)
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The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945
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Map showing Auschwitz-Birkenau (1945), site of memory in The War Room — WW2, 1936–1945
SITE OF MEMORY · THE WAR ROOM — WW2, 1936–1945

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