The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again.

International Business Exploration Club

Trip to Auschwitz

The grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, are one of the most known mass genocide sites from the Second World War. In this place, from 1940-1945, the Nazis murdered apporx. 1.5 million people, primarily Jews from all countries of occupied Europe, as well as Poles, gypsies, Soviet prisoners of war and people of other nationalities.

The Auschwitz campconsisted of three separate parts: Auschwitz I in Oswiecim, Auschwitz II Birkenau in Brzezinka and Auschwitz III in Monowice.

At the end of the war, the SS, in an attempt to erase all signs of the crime, began to take down and destroy the camp structures, and evacuate all prisoners capable of work deep into the Reich. On January 27, 1945 the soldiers of the Red Army entered Oswiecim, thus liberating the camp and saving the lives of the prisoners there who the SS had not yet managed to take away or murder.

In 1947 the Polish parliment called the Auschwitz-Kirkenau State Museum into being, and entrusted it with the mission of preserving the grounds, structures and remainders of the camp forever. Primarily, however, the former Nazi camp is a Memorial and Cemetery to which thousands of pilgrims from the world over pay their respects to those murdered.