Auschwitz. A death camp.

The director of the Auschwitz Museum has calculated the number of victims of the death camp. The director of the Polish National Auschwitz Museum, Franciszek Piper, has published the latest data on the victims of the largest Nazi concentration camp, according to the Xinhua news agency. According to the Polish historian, a total of 1.1 million people died in the camp from April 1940, when the first barracks of the camp appeared near the city of Auschwitz, to January 1945. The total number of prisoners was 1.3 million. According to Piper, 1.1 million of the 1.3 million prisoners were Jews. This accounts for approximately 85 percent of all Jews living in Europe at the time. According to the data published in the report, only 200,000 of them were registered – the rest were killed immediately after being brought to the camp. Citizens of more than 30 countries were held in Auschwitz, including not only Jews, Gypsies, Russians, and Poles, but even Chinese. The figures that the historian published in the Polish press do not differ significantly from previous studies. All of them are based on documents from the archives of the Third Reich and testimonies from former prisoners and camp personnel. Immediately after the war, during the investigation of Nazi crimes, the USSR stated that the total number of victims was more than four million, of which about half were Jews, and the rest were Poles, Gypsies, and Soviet prisoners of war. Representatives of the Allies agreed with these figures at the time. However, later these figures were significantly reduced. Some historians have published studies according to which between 630,000 and 700,000 Jews died in Auschwitz. According to these same data, a total of 800,000 people were killed in the death camp.