Auschwitz Concentration Camp
(1979)
Poland
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The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers
and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took
place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau,
the largest in the Third Reich.
According to historical investigations, 1.5 million people, among them a great number of Jews, were systematically starved, tortured and murdered in this camp, the symbol of humanity's cruelty to its fellow human beings in the 20th century.
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Other World Heritage Sites in Poland (on this website). Inactive links are not described on stamps. Please refer to the UNESCO-listing (Poland-Section) for further information on such properties.
Revised 31 jul 2006 |
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