Auschwitz was the site of the largest mass murder ever. Soviet soldiers arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 27, 1945. Just days earlier the Nazis abandoned it. This put a stop to the largest mass murder in a single location ever. 960,000 of 1.1-1.3 million Jews deported to the camp were killed by the Garman SS. Many other people were killed there. At Auschwitz more people died than at any other death camp in history. In the camp roughly 7,000 starved people were found alive. Auschwitz, was set up in May 1940. In January 1942 the Nazis made camps dedicated to the experimentation of Jews. Out of the three main camps, Auschwitz II had the most prisoners. But the Nazis said that this building was not big enough for the scale
