📋Planning

• Visit to Auschwitz

Auschwitz was a complex of Nazi concentration and extermination camps near the town of Oświęcim (Auschwitz in German), while Katowice is an industrial city in southern Poland, about 60 km away. The history of Auschwitz is marked by the Holocaust, with the Germans building the main concentration camps, such as Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau, where millions of people were murdered. In contrast, Katowice was a key industrial centre that suffered under German occupation and, after the war, became a centre for reconstruction and trade in post-war Poland. 

Auschwitz

• Construction: Built by the Germans in 1940 using Polish military barracks. It was divided into several camps, including Auschwitz I (the original administrative centre), Auschwitz II-Birkenau (the main extermination camp) and Auschwitz III (a slave labour camp for the IG Farben company).

• Purpose: It was the largest Nazi concentration and extermination complex, where approximately 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, died between 1940 and 1945.

• Post-war: After the war, the camps were transformed into museums by the Polish government. 

Katowice

• History: It was a key industrial centre in the Silesia region that was occupied by Germany during the Second World War.

• Reconstruction: After the war, the industrial region of Katowice focused on reconstruction and trade, becoming an important economic centre in Poland.

📋Egunerako antolaketa

• Auschwitz-era bisita
  Auschwitz kontzentrazio- eta sarraskitze-esparru naziaz osatutako gune bat izan zen, Auschwitz (alemanez Oświęcim) hiritik gertu. Katowice, berriz, Poloniako hegoaldeko hiri industrial bat da, 60 km inguruko distantziara dagoena. Auschwitzen historia Holokaustoak markatzen du, alemanek kontzentrazio esparru nagusiak eraiki zituztelarik, Auschwitz I eta Auschwitz II-Birkenau kasu, non milioika pertsona erail zituzten. Aitzitik, Katowice gune industrial gakoa izan zen, alemaniarren okupaziopean eta, gerra ostean, sufritu zuena gerraosteko Poloniako berreraikuntza eta merkataritzarako gune bihurtu zen.

Auschwitz

• Eraikuntza: Alemaniarrek eraiki zuten 1940an, barraka militar poloniarrak erabiliz. Hainbat eremutan banatu zen, Auschwitz I (jatorrizko zentro administratiboa), Auschwitz II-Birkenau (sarraski eremu nagusia) eta Auschwitz III (IG Farben enpresarentzako lan eremu esklabo bat) barne.

• Helburua: Nazien kontzentrazio eta sarraski konplexurik handiena izan zen, non 1.1 milioi pertsona inguru hil ziren, gehienak juduak, 1940 eta 1945 artean.

• Gerraostea: Gerra ondoren, Poloniako gobernuak lur sailak museo bihurtu zituen.

Katowice

• Historia: Bigarren Mundu Gerran Alemaniak okupatu zuen Silesia eskualdeko industria-gune garrantzitsua izan zen.

• Berreraikitzea: Gerraren ondoren, Katowice eskualde industriala berreraikuntzan eta merkataritzan zentratu zen, Poloniako gune ekonomiko garrantzitsu bihurtuz.