Auschwitz-Birkenau was the principal and most notorious of the six concentration and extermination camps established by Nazi Germany to implement its Final Solution policy which had as its aim the mass murder of the Jewish people in Europe. Built in Poland under Nazi German occupation initially as a concentration camp for Poles and later for Soviet prisoners of war, it soon became a prison for a number of other nationalities. Between the years 1942-1944 it became the main mass extermination camp where Jews were tortured and killed for their so-called racial origins. In addition to the mass murder of well over a million Jewish men, women and children, and tens of thousands of Polish victims, Auschwitz also served as a camp for the racial murder of thousands of Roma and Sinti and prisoners of several European nationalities.
I was not going to post these pictures, I took of Auschwitz, but due to the sign over the main gates being stolen, and fears that the camp,s closure is being called for, by some elements ,I have now decided to do so. This is Auschwitz, and not Birkenau, I will post the pictures I took of Birkenau later. This is very personal to me, and I have friends who,s parents were inmates here.
Andy
I was not going to post these pictures, I took of Auschwitz, but due to the sign over the main gates being stolen, and fears that the camp,s closure is being called for, by some elements ,I have now decided to do so. This is Auschwitz, and not Birkenau, I will post the pictures I took of Birkenau later. This is very personal to me, and I have friends who,s parents were inmates here.
Andy