As a tourist attraction.
Yes itis still there.
A Extermination camp
It was used as a concentration camp and a extermination camp and also it got alot of Sub camps near the 3 main camps of Auschwitz
Auschwitz was a concentration camp.concentration and extermination camp
It had 3 sections. Auschwitz-I, which served as a working camp. Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the death camp. Auschwitz-III, it was used to provide slave labor to the nearby industry.
Auschwitz had 3 big 'main' camps. They were called Auschwitz I, Auschwitz Birkenau and Auschwitz Monowitz. Monowitz was really a sub camp which was commonly used and when expanded did become as part of the main camps. Out of the lot, Auschwitz Birkenau was the biggest and most feared of as this part was about Extermination when the Final Solution was putted in place.
From early 1942 Auschwitz operated as both. The only other camp that served as both a concentration camp and extermination camp was Majdanek.
Auschwitz I- Birkenau
Parts of Auschwitz I and II have been preserved as a museum.
The purpose of the Auschwitz camp was to kill people or put them to work.
Seriouse slave labour and Mass killings
Buna is a work camp mainly and it is also in Auschwitz as well as the main Auschwitz camp and Auschwitz-Birkenau, the death camp.