Mini dictionary of terms from the history of Auschwitz

Aid to prisoners

Arbeit macht frei

Asocial prisoners, category

Auschwitz

Auschwitz I

Auschwitz II-Birkenau

Auschwitz III-Monowitz

Jehovah's Witnesses, category of prisoners

Bauabschnitte

BIa

BIb

BIIa

BIIb

BIIc

BIId

BIIe

BIIf

BIIg

BIII

Birkenau, Auschwitz-II

Block 10

Block 11

Block elder

Bombing

Burning pits

Camp extension

Categories of prisoners

Children

Construction segment

Crematoria

Criminal prisoners, category

Death Marches

Death Wall

Dental gold

Diarrhea

Durchfall

Effacing the traces of crime

Escapes

Ethnic origins of the prisoners

Executions

Expulsion

First transports of Polish political prisoners

Food

Frauenlager

Functionary prisoners

Gas chambers

German companies

Gypsies

Hair

Himmler, Heinrich

Homosexual prisoners, category

Hospitals

Höss, Rudolf

Human ashes

Hygiene

IG Farben

Informing the world about Auschwitz crimes

Interest Zone of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Jehovah's Witnesses, category of prisoners

Jews

Kanada

Kapo

Kommando

Labor

Lagererweiterung

Liberation

“Lili Jacob Album”

“Little Red House”

“Little White House”

Living conditions

Medical experiments

Meksyk

Mengele, Josef

Monowitz

Mortality in the camp

Muselmann

Mutinies

Needle

Number of prisoners in the camp

Number of victims

Oświęcim

Partisans

Penal company

Phlegmon

Pipel

Plunder

Poles

Political prisoners, category

Punishment by the post

Punishments

Rail ramps

Reeducation prisoners, category

Reports by escapees

Resistance movement

Roma

Selection in the camp

Selection on the ramp

Sonderaktion “Ungarn”

Sonderkommando

Sonderkommando manuscripts

Soviet prisoners of war

“Sport”

SS Garrison

Sterilization experiments

Strafkompanie

Sub-camps

Tattooing

Triangle

Typhus

Warsaw Uprising

Women

Youths

Zamość region

Zyklon B