In this city during the World War II the Nazi established
the biggest concentration camp on the occupied areas.
This camp was divided into Auschwitz concentration camp
for Poles, Russians and other occupied nations like
also on Auschwitz-Birkenau, - a destruction camp for
the Jewish nation. According to estimations, Germans
exterminated in the camp several millions of people,
most of which was the exterminated Jewish nation. The
visitors are welcome to by a sign: "Arbeit Macht
Frei" and buildings in which the prisoners were
kept. Horrifying visions of Holocaust appear while the
visitors are in the gas chambers, crematory and there
they can see the pictures of prisoners and preserved
pieces of clothes.
