Slide 12

This is a map of Auschwitz. "Auschwitz" took its name from the German name for the nearby town of Oświęcim about 40 miles west of Kraków and was actually a complex of three, or more, camps, indicated on this map as Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II and Auschwitz III. Auschwitz I was the first camp at the site, and the complex center with a single gas chamber and crematorium. Mostly Poles and Soviet POWs died there. Auschwitz II, aka Birkenau, was the extermination camp with four gas chambers and four crematoria. 20,000 people could be gassed and cremated each day. Well, over a million people died there. Auschwitz III, aka Monowitz, was the labor camp associated with the I.G. Farben factory. The Germans choose this place because of the main railroads there.