Some facts about the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
Posted January 25, 2015 7:30 am.
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About 100 Holocaust survivors from around the world, including Canada, are returning to Poland this week to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Here are some facts:
Sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau:
1.1 million Jews
140,000–150,000 non-Jewish Poles
23,000 Roma and Sinti (Gypsies)
15,000 Soviet prisoners of war
25,000 others
Killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau:
960,000 Jews
74,000 Poles,
21,000 Roma (Gypsies)
15,000 Soviet prisoners of war
10,000–15,000 members of other nationalities (Soviet civilians, Czechs, Yugoslavs, French, Germans, and Austrians).
Arrivals by country:
Hungary: 426,000
Poland: 300,000
France: 69,000
Netherlands: 60,000
Greece: 55,000
Bohemia and Moravia: 46,000
Slovakia: 27,000
Belgium: 25,000
Yugoslavia: 10,000
Italy: 7,500
Norway: 690
other (including concentration camps): 34,000.
Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
