The Origin of The Auschwitz

In 1940 the Auschwitz 1 also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau and "The Death Factory" was created to hold Polish political prisoners. It is the largest Nazi concentration camp and is located in Poland. It was both a concentration camp and an extermination camp. They first started to exterminate in prisoners the same year the camp opened.

A frontal view of The Auschwitz 
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Purpose

The Auschwitz, as state earlier was both a concentration camp and an extermination camp. In that sense they both put prisoners to work, performed gruesome medical procedures and experiments, tested poison gasses and other weapons on live humans and overall had mass execution. 

The picture depicts the compound where prisoners were kept

Conditions

Contrary to popular belief, prisoners were actually fed 3 times a day. The nutritional value and amount of rations for each prisoner, on the other hand, wasn't very sufficient. Often prisoners would die of exhaustion from working without proper nutrition. Order of the day was very important.  Prisoners spent over ten hours per day working, and the rest of the time was taken up by long roll-call assemblies, lining up for food rations or the washroom, or a place in the latrines removing dirt and pests from clothing, and disinfection. They also usually did labor such as leveling the ground, making buildings and other similar tedious tasks and jobs. Living conditions were overcrowded and disease and sickness spread quite easily among the prisoners. 

Above you can see prisoners digging and leveling the ground

Here you can see the living quarters of prisoners and the space they are provided

Questions

1.) Where is the Auschwitz located?

2.) What year was Auschwitz opened?