Auschwitz deportees and deaths by background 1941-1945

Of the 1.3 million people deported to the Auschwitz concentration camps during the Second World War, approximately 1.1 million were murdered. The vast majority of the deportees were Jews, who made up around 90 percent of all deaths in the camp. While a much lower number of Roma/Sinti or Soviet POWs were deported to the camp, their death rates were also exceptionally high.

Estimated number of deportees and deaths at the Auschwitz concentration camp complex during the Holocaust 1941-1945, by background

Characteristic	Deportees	Deaths
Others*	25,000	12,500
Soviet POWs	15,000	15,000
Roma/Sinti	23,000	21,000
Poles*	145,000	72,500
Jews	1,100,000	1,000,000

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February 2022

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Region

Poland, EU, CEE

Survey time period

1941 to 1945

Supplementary notes

*The source gave estimate ranges for the following, the average of which has been used for display purposes:
Poles - Deportees: 140,000-150,000, Deaths: 70,000-75,000.
Others - Deaths: 10,000-15,000.
*Although it is not stipulated by the source, it is likely that "Poles" refers to non-Jewish Poles only, and that a very large share of the Jews killed were Polish.

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