This article on Auschwitz is a great summary of the main facts of the Auschwitz camp such as the number of victims, how it was administered, prisoner revolts, its sub camps, and evacuation by the Soviet Union. Auschwitz is such an important concentration camp out of the many because it is the largest and was used for every function that other concentration camps were used for such as being used for labor, extermination, etc. The layout of the camp is described as being engineered to most effectively exterminate and to utilize the free labor.
