Auschwitz-Birkenau [100]
65th anniversary of liberation of KL Auschwitz-Birkenau
Face value: 100 pln
Alloy: 900/1000 Au
Diameter: 21 mm
Weight: 8 g
Finish: proof
Mintage: 8000 pcs
On the edge: smooth
Additional: no
Date of issue: 2010-01-22
Issue price: 1142 pln
Designer: Robert Kotowicz
Designer: Robert Kotowicz
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Auschwitz-Birkenau, German Nazi concentration and extermination
camp was liberated on 27 January 1945 by the soldiers of the Red Army.
The fighting for the liberation of the town of Oświęcim and the nearby
camp took the lives of more than 230 Soviet soldiers. The Auschwitz (Polish name: Oświęcim) concentration camp was
established in mid-1940 as the number of detained Poles in Germanoccupied
country kept rising. The oldest part of the camp, the so-called
mother camp (Auschwitz I) was established at the site of old military
barracks.
In the autumn of 1941 in the nearby Birkenau (Brzezinka) village,
the Germans started the construction of the second part of the camp.
It was called Auschwitz II (or Birkenau). At a given point in time
it accommodated ...