Long trains of cattle cars hauled their cargo of humans to this unloading ramp inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, or to other ramps very close by. They were brought from all over Europe: the Greek island of Salonnika, from Rotterdam, Berlin, Paris, Prague, from Budapest and Brussells and Bucarest... This is the culmination of a vast network of tracks and trains, switches and control towers, railroad yards and loading platforms, camps, guards, clerks and often, meticulous planning.
