* The main camp of Auschwitz, located in the town of Oświęcim.
* Used as an administrative centre and to house SS personnel.
* Also the site of the first gas chambers and crematoria, used to murder thousands of prisoners.
Auschwitz II-Birkenau
* The largest camp in the Auschwitz complex, located about 3 kilometres from Auschwitz I.
* Primarily used as an extermination camp, with four large gas chambers and crematoria capable of murdering up to 4,000 prisoners per day.
* Also housed a number of sub-camps, where prisoners were used as forced labour.
Auschwitz III-Monowitz
* A sub-camp of Auschwitz, located about 7 kilometres from Auschwitz I.
* Established to provide forced labour for the Buna-Werke synthetic rubber factory.
* Thousands of prisoners died at Monowitz from overwork, disease, and starvation.
Other sub-camps of Auschwitz
* There were over 40 sub-camps of Auschwitz, located throughout the region.
* These sub-camps were used for a variety of purposes, including forced labour, medical experiments, and the extermination of prisoners.
Overall, the purpose of the Auschwitz complex was to systematically murder millions of people, primarily Jews, as part of the Nazis' Final Solution.