AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU, POLAND

It is very painful to see this place . Originally it was to be an instrument of terror and extermination of Poles. As time passed, the Nazis began to deport to the camp people from all over Europe, mainly Jews-citizens of various countries. Soviet prisoners-of-war, Gypsies, Czechs, Yugoslavs, Frenchmen, Austrians, Germans and others were also among the prisoners of AUSCHWITZ. the prison blocks in the camp at AUSCHWITZ contain exhibitions portraying the history of AUSCHWITZ, or tracing the torments of various nations whose people were murdered here. In 1941 the camp authorities put there the Polish Franciscan conventual Friar Mazimilian Kolbe, who had given his life for another prisoner. It was horrible inhuman act against humanity.