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The village of Brzezinka was evacuated for this purpose, and a handful of farm buildings were woven into the structure of the camp.
They were of many different nationalities, but the vast majority of those that entered the camp were unregistered Jews, many of whom were immediately sent to their deaths in the gas chambers.
Birkenau is a very large place and thus it is easy to miss a small portion of camp.
The gassing operation at Birkenau in 1942 was nothing more than two make-shift gas chambers in a couple of old farm houses; the bodies were buried in mass graves beause there were as yet no crematory ovens at Birkenau.
AuschwitzII, or Birkenau, was opened on October 7, 1941 as a Prisoner of War camp for soldiers captured during the German invasion of the Soviet Union which had begun on June 22, 1941.
The boundaries of Birkenau stretched a mile in one direction and a mile and a half in the other, but when the Hungarian Jews were brought to Birkenau, beginning in late April 1944, the camp became so over-crowded that the prisoners were sleeping five to a bed and five prisoners were sharing one coffee cup.
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