A concentration camp in Poland where Jews and other prisoners were transported once expelled from their homes. This camp, opened on June 14, 1940, consisted of three parts, an extermination camp, a labor camp, and a prison camp. The prisoners were transported in cattle cars and were sorted into different groups upon arrival, the able-bodied were sent to labor camps and the elderly, women, children, and those in poor health were banished directly to the gas chambers. The Soviet Union troops began getting closer and closer to Auschwitz so many of Hitler’s forces began to evacuate the camp. Soviet Union soldiers finally arrived at the camp on January 27, 1945 marking the end of Auschwitz and freeing more than 7,000
