The extermination of the Jews by the Germans during World War II, within the framework of the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question,” was the largest mass act of genocide in human history. One‑fifth of the almost six million murdered Jews perished in Auschwitz.

In total, in the years 1942-1944, more than a million Jews were deported to the camp:

430,000 from Hungary

300,000 from Poland

69,000 from France

60,000 from the Netherlands

55,000 from Greece

46,000 from Bohemia and Moravia

26,000 from Slovakia

25,000 from Belgium

23,000 from Germany and Austria

10,000 from Yugoslavia

7,500 from Italy

690 from Norway

About 900,000 of them were murdered in the gas chambers immediately after arrival and selection on the ramp. About 200,000 were registered in the camp, where more than half died as a result of brutal treatment by SS men and prisoner functionaries, work exceeding their strength, malnutrition, terrible hygienic conditions and the associated sicknesses and epidemics (living conditions) and selection in the camp.