Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kastoria City, Lena Russo & Yom HaShoah Commemorations This Year
Auschwitz-Birkenau It is the largest concentration, forced labor, and systematic massacre and extermination camp established by Nazi Germany in the "Final Solution" plan. Between 1940 and 1945, a total of 1.3 million people among them 1 million Jews, were imprisoned from Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau. (1) 1.1 million people of these were predicted to be killed with 960,000 (2) Jews. Approximately 900,000 people were killed directly in the gas chambers or by shooting as soon as they arrived at the camp. The remaining 200,000 died due to illness, lack of nutrients, maltreatment, and medical...