Concentration camp in Auschwitz, 2014 (photo)

A freigh wagon stands on a side track between Auschwitz main camp and Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, 4 October 2014. People from all countries occupied by Nazi Germany, primeraly European Jews from 1942 onwards, were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp and were forced to march from this side track to Auschwitz-Birkenau before the camp's selection ramp was completed. Most of them were murdered in the camp's gas chambers. Only 15 to 20 per cent of arriving prisoners from each deportation train were left alive to serve as forced labourers and died mostly from exhaustion and diseases. The average live expectancy inÊAuschwitz was around three months. The camp was liberated by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945 and was turned into a memorial site and museum in 1947.