When Auschwitz was eventually liberated, it had more than 40 camps and subcamps. Concentration camp survivor Jacek Nadolny, 77, was 7 years old during the Warsaw Uprising, when he was sent with his family to Auschwitz-Birkenau by train. Replay. Auschwitz was a network of concentration camps built and operated in occupied Poland by Nazi Germany during World War II. In its original incarnation as a concentration camp, Auschwitz was designed to work inmates to death. Jun 20, 2021 at 1:05 PM. He struck an SS guard and ran. Prisoners in Nazi concentration camps made music; now it's being discovered and performed. A woman born inside the Auschwitz concentration camp has accused a former guard on trial for being an accessory to the murders of 170,000 Holocaust victims of “making hell possible”. (Stanislaw Mucha/AP) This article is more than 3 years old. The camps are located approximately 37 miles west of Krakow, near the prewar German Polish border in Upper Silesia, an area that the Nazi Germany annexed in 1939 after invading and conquering Poland. Visitors to Auschwitz, Jan. 25, 2015, behind barbed-wire fences at the memorial site of the former Nazi concentration camp, days before the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the camp… Browse 217 holocaust tattoo stock photos and images available, or search for concentration camp or auschwitz to find more great stock photos and pictures. Virtual Tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camps