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Anne Frank's father survived Auschwitz and died in 1980 of lung cancer.

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During the Holocaust, a Jewish woman exposed up to 3,000 hiding Jews to the Gestapo to save her family. Even after the Nazis sent her parents and husband to Auschwitz anyway in 1943, she continued to work for the Gestapo until 1945.

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Auschwitz's camp commandant Rudolf Hoss, was arrested in 1946, convicted of 🤬 and hanged at the camp.

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Witold Pilecki, a Polish soldier, volunteered to be imprisoned in Auschwitz in order to gather information, escape and let the world know about the Holocaust.

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Besides Jews, others deported to Auschwitz included 150,000 Poles, 23,000 Romani and Sinti, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war and 400 Jehovah's Witnesses.

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prisoners are known to have escaped from Auschwitz successfully

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Auschwitz was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940.

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More people died in Auschwitzthan the British and American losses of WW2

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In October 1944, a group of Auschwitz "Sonderkommando," young Jewish males responsible for removing corpses from crematoriums and gas chambers, staged a revolt. They assaulted their guards, using tools and makeshift explosives, and demolished a crematorium. All were apprehended and killed.

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"Arbeit macht frei" (German pronunciation: [ˈaɐ̯baɪt ˈmaxt ˈfʁaɪ]) is a German phrasemeaning "work sets you free". The slogan is known for appearing on the entrance of Auschwitz and other 🤬 concentration camps.

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No one knows exactly how many people were sent to Auschwitz, or how many died there. However, historians estimate that between 1940 and 1945, the Nazis sent at least 1.3 million people to Auschwitz. About 1.1 million of these people died or were killed at Auschwitz.

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Auschwitz, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, opened in 1940 and was the largest of the 🤬 concentration and death camps.