 | Birkenau, Poland |
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... of the more famous residents of Birkenau is Anne Frank, though she was eventually transferred to another camp. The size of Birkenau is staggering - 175 hectares. I could barely see across it. The compound was designed to hold up to 200,000 prisoners. ...
... blocks of the first camp in the complex - Aushwitz 1. But the real shock for us came three kilometres away at the Birkenau camp. The scale of the place is as incomprehensible as the events that it witnessed: around one-and-a-half million people, most of ...
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... arrival - so we left the over-crowded Aushwitz site (there were at least 20 coaches in the car park) and walked 3km to Birkenau. This is essentially the next village along from Oswiecim and was used by the SS as the site of "Aushwitz II". Not so many ...
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