Day Trip from Wroclaw to Auschwitz - Birkenau: It was the largest of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camps. Life has lost over 1.1 million men, women and children. The Auschwitz camp has become a symbol of terror and genocide for the world. It was created by the Germans in mid-1940 in the suburbs of Oświęcim, incorporated by the Nazis into the Third Reich.