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(JEWISH GROUP) What Was Auschwitz? Holocaust Explainer
During the Holocaust, the Nazis imprisoned and murdered Jews and other groups at thousands of camps throughout Europe.
The largest camp complex was Auschwitz.
It was central to the Nazi plan to murder all European Jews in the Holocaust.
In less than five years of operation, the Nazis murdered more than 1.1 million people at Auschwitz, nearly one million of them were Jews.