!!!Auschwitz

Auschwitz (Oswiecim), town in Poland 50km west of Kraków; 
became part of Austria in 1772 (the full title of the Habsburgs 
included that of the Duke of Auschwitz and Zator), returned to Poland 
in 1918. In 1940 a concentration camp was constructed in A., then 
expanded to become an extermination camp for Jews in 1941/1942. By the 
time Soviet troops took the camp on January 27, 1945, 1.5 million 
people had died there, including tens of thousands of Austrian Jews.


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