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Birkenau Little White House

The Birkenau Little White House – also called Bunker 2 – was used until the spring and summer of 1943, when the larger Krems II, III, IV, V were opened. Because the walls were plastered, it was called the “Little White House.”

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Birkenau Little White House

About June of 1942, the number and size of Jewish transports sent to Auschwitz increased necessitating the use of two farmhouses expropriated from Polish farmers from the village of Brzezinka as provisional gas chambers.

The “Little White House” was used until the spring and summer of 1943, when the larger Krems II, III, IV, V were opened.

Because the walls were plastered, it was called the “Little White House.”

(AI rendition in video of a white farmhouse of that time, no pictures exist)

Here’s a large field where their bodies were buried or cremated in open pits.

However with the increase in Jews from Hungary pouring into the camp in the spring and summer of 1944, it was put back in operation.

The building was destroyed in autumn 1944, when extermination operations in Birkenau were completed. Traces of the foundations of the Little White House are still visible.

The rear of the Sauna (new prisoner processing center) and then the foundation of the Birkenau Little White House is seen at the end of the video.

All photos and videos are Copyright Alan Jacobs and Remember.org.

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