The current director is Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński.
The Auschwitz group of camps (which inluded Birkenau) was the largest, and the main camps (Auschwitz I, II and III) were located near the Polish town of Oswiecim. The minimum serious modern scholarly estimate of the number of prisoners killed is about 1.1 million, of whom about 90% were Jews. (These figures were worked out by the Director of the Auschwitz Museum, Franczisek Piper and published in an article in 1989). The next camp in terms of the death-toll was Treblinka II, where an estimated 870,000 victims were slaughtered.
Auschwitz I Stammlager, Auschwitz II Birkenau and Auschwitz III Monowitz
Auschwitz Birkenau was established at Auschwitz but Auschwitz is now called Oświęcim.
Auschwitz I- Birkenau
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 is located in Poland.
Auschwitz was established by Heinrich Himmler.
The Commandant of Auschwitz was Rudolf Hoess.
Auschwitz and it was located in Nazi-Occupied Poland.
According to a widely respected article written in 1989 by Franciszek Piper, the Director of the Auschwitz Museum, about 1.3 million prisoners entered the Auschwitz complex of camps, and 200,000 left alive. However, this does not mean that they all survived, as many were transferred to other camps, where they perished. (Anne and Margot Frank are well known examples). Of the 1.1 million victims at Auschwitz, about 90% were Jews. Piper's estimate of the numbers is deliberately cautious, and most serious scholarly debate since 1989 has focused on the range 1.1.-1.5 million.