Must-watch
The World at War
Here in the story
Camp
Survivors and perpetrators speak about the Nazi plan to murder Europe's Jews.
What happened here
Opened in 1940 for Polish political prisoners near Oświęcim, Auschwitz grew into the largest Nazi killing centre, with gas chambers and crematoria at Birkenau. About 1.1 million people were murdered there, around a million of them Jews; some 420,000 Hungarian Jews arrived in the spring and summer of 1944 alone. On 7 October 1944 the Sonderkommando revolted. Soviet troops liberated the camp on 27 January 1945.
Films and series set in Auschwitz
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Schindler's List
Here in the story
Camp
The train carrying Schindler's women is sent to Birkenau by mistake, and he rushes there to bargain for their release.
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Son of Saul
Here in the story
Camp
Saul moves through the gas chambers, the pits and the barracks, carrying the boy's body and searching for a rabbi as the revolt approaches.
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The Zone of Interest
Here in the story
Home
Hedwig tends her flowers and hosts her mother while trains, shots and furnaces are heard beyond the garden wall.
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Here in the story
Camp
Given the tattooist's needle, Lali gains small privileges he uses to smuggle food, and meets Gita when he marks her arm.
Events at Auschwitz
Holocaust
Liberation of Auschwitz
Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz, the largest Nazi camp, where about 1.1 million people were murdered, most of them Jews. The date is now International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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