It was behind the Iron Curtain in 1979, it is now a World Heritage Site.
Auschwitz Birkenau was established at Auschwitz but Auschwitz is now called Oświęcim.
They were sent to Auschwitz by train from different concentration camps.
Auschwitz is now a museum and there are plenty of good websites. A few are given below.
Parts of Auschwitz I and II have been preserved and in part restored and are now a museum and a World Heritage Site. It is visited by tourists and survivors today.A tourist attraction.
Prior to 1979 hurricanes were only given female names. Now they alternate between male and female names.
it is now a museum, they let tourists of the Holocaust view it.
Jonathan Huener has written: 'Auschwitz, Poland and the politics of commemoration, 1945-1979'
She died from typhoid fever in the Auschwitz concentration camp.
there was a total of three Auschwitz camps that were significant in World War II. Each Auschwitz had a different purpose. Auschwitz I was created to incarcerate prisoners at forced labor. Auschwitz II was built as the Execution or Death Camp, holding more Gas Chambers than any of the three Auschwitz camps. Auschwitz III was a Labor Education Camp for non-Jewish prisoners who were perceived to have violated German-imposed labor discipline.
Auschwitz, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. It closed down on January 1945 when the Soviet army entered Krakow (a large city in Poland) the Germans ordered that Auschwitz be abandoned.
Some of the camps, such as Dachau and Auschwitz, are now museums.
Auschwitz I Stammlager, Auschwitz II Birkenau and Auschwitz III Monowitz