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Auschwitz Birkenau Around 1.5 million people – Jews, Poles, political prisoners, and Gypsies – died at the hands of the Nazis at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was in this largest of death camps that the Nazis embarked upon their plan to systematically exterminate all Jews living in the Third Reich in gas chambers. You will watch a 55-minute documentary on the liberation of the camp before you go on a guided tour of the prison blocks, the gas chamber, and the crematorium. After a short break, the tour continues to Birkenau, where you go up the watchtower above the entrance gate to have a view of the largest Nazi Concentration Camp. A Martyrdom Museum was set up here in 1947 and in 1979, UNESCO included Auschwitz-Birkenau on its list of World Heritage sites. |