Life After Auschwitz-- Part 4: More Than 1.1 Million Murdered Here

Today's visitors can also see suitcases, glasses and other items prisoners brought on their journeys there.  Especially haunting are the prostehetic limbs.  Many of the Jews who were murdered had fought for their homelands, including Germany, in World War I.

At some parts of Auschwitz-Birkenau only dozens of brick chimneys remain on a vast field where once the barracks for detainees stood.

More than 1.1 million people were murdered by the Nazis and their henchmen at Auschwitz.  Most of those killed were Jews, but the victims also included Poles, Roma (Gypsies), Soviet prisoners of war, and others.

In all, about 6 million Jews died during the Holocaust.

When the Soviets liberated the camp, they found about 7,000 survivors.

--GreGen