Auschwitz known all over the world as a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust was established by the Nazis in the suburbs of the city of Oswiecim which, like other parts of Poland, was occupied by the Germans during the Second World War. Auschwitz and Birkenau, the two camps were liberated in January 1945. The remains of the camps, the survivors' and liberators' testimonies, and the documentary evidence leave no doubt as to the enormity of the crimes against humanity which were committed there
