- The first thirty prisoners arrived to KL Auschwitz I on 20th of May, 1940. These thirty prisoners were convicted German criminals and were intended to serve as a prisoner-functionaries at the concentration camp. Nine days later, 29th of May 1940, 39 Polish prisoners, mainly high school students from Lodz arrived to the camp, with one German prisoner acting as a capo. From here on, the camp started to expand enormously.

- At first from 1940 to mid 1942, the victims of KL Auschwitz I were mainly Polish political prisoners. The word political in this sense is a very loose one, as most of the people brought to the camp and killed there, were rounded up during street arrests and might had nothing to do with the resistance movement at all. It was just part of the German terror tactic, to pressure the Polish people to give up any resistance and eventually, to destroy the whole Polish nation...

- From mid 1942 till the end of the war, majority of the victims were Jews, brought to the camp from all over the Europe and exterminated there. The first known transport that brought Jews to the camp, arrived from Bytom on 15th of February 1942.

- Other two major groups of people that were sent to KL Auschwitz I, were the Soviet Prisoners of War, with at least 15,000 of them sent to the camp where most of them died, before seeing the end of the war. The second group were the Gypsies, with even decorated Wehrmacht soldiers being pulled out of the frontline and sent to the concentration camp. Around 23,000 Gypsies were sent to the so-called family camp of KL Auschwitz - Birkenau II, where most of them died as a result of hunger, disease and emaciation. The remaining Gypsies in the camp, 3,000 of them, were finally gassed on 2nd of August 1944 and thus, the Gypsy camp was liquidated.

- The ever increasing numbers of victims brought to the camp, meant that a constant expansion was needed, in order to hold those persons in the camp, that would be usable in different industries. In the end, the name Auschwitz, meant more than just the main camp. There was the KL Auschwitz II - Birkenau with it's numerous different sub-camps and then there was the KL Auschwitz III, which was composed of even more sub-camps.

- The liberation for those still alive, came on 27th of January 1945, when the men from the Soviet 100th Lviv Infantry Division, led by Major General Fyodor Mikhailovich Krasavin, entered the area of KL Aushcwithz II - Birkenau and to the area of the main camp.

- During the over 56 months of the camp existence, millions of victims and stories about suffering...you cannot hide behind your camera here...

- The place does not need any empty words.