The State Museum Of Auschwitz-Birkenau & Remember.Org Present
- Virtual Tour Home
- Auschwitz I – Start
- Virtual Tour of Birkenau – Start
- Birkenau Entrance – Death Gate
- The Unloading Ramp
- Men and Women’s Barracks
- Birkenau Latrines
- The Penal Company – BIb
- Model of Krematorium II
- Krematorium II
- The Rear of Birkenau: The Final Moments
- The Little Wood
- The Ash Pond
- Krematorium V
- Sauna and Kanada
- Sauna Interiors (3)
- Little White House
- Birkenau Woods Incineration Area
- The Judenrampe – Old Ramp
- Russian POWs Graveyard
- Museum at Auschwitz
- Credits
Auschwitz Entrance Street
Enter Auschwitz I and take the tour with videos below - the top 3 are the Original Auschwitz Virtual Tour. Below those are the same 3 videos with captions and art.
At the bottom of the page are text descriptions of what you see, with details and historical information and much more.
Auschwitz Entrance
Directly in front, the tree where prisoners being punished were tied. Sometimes the dogs would be loosed on them.
Painting of dog attacking by survivor Tadeusz Siwek
Reproduction courtesy of Auschwitz Museum Archive, 1980
The building just behind the tree is the prisoner administration building and
just to its right, the camp kitchen.
Moving you see the main entrance guardhouse and the main gate.
Arrival into the Auschwitz camp. Just behind the prisoner’s backs
and to their left is the guard tower at the main entrance to the camp.
Painting by survivor Wladyslaw Siwek
Reproduction courtesy of Auschwitz Museum Archive, 1980
Next are the production workshops.
Scrolling next you’ll find prisoners’ admissions and reception building.
It was partially ready only in late 1943, receiving only one or two transports.
Finally, the Camp Kitchen completes the video.
All photos and videos are Copyright Alan Jacobs and Remember.org.
Directly in front, the camp kitchen.
The camera seems to be placed at the main crossroads in Auschwitz I.
Continue down the street where you see a small, narrow, dark structure on the edge of the sidewalk.
This is the Rapportführer’s booth from which he commanded the roll call, or Appel.
Follow through numerous barracks and roads.
As you scroll past it, the area beyond the guard tower in the distance is Krematorium I.
Scroll right to the main entrance in the background, and to its right, the prisoner administration and reception building, partially ready only in late 1943.
It received only one or two transports.
Then back around to the camp kitchen.
All photos and videos are Copyright Alan Jacobs and Remember.org.
The first look is of some workshop buildings outside the entrance to the First Auschwitz camp and administrative headquarters.
The large building with the peaked roof is the Reception, or Admissions Building, partially ready only in late 1943. It received only one or two transports.
Continuing you see a small air raid shelter for the guards just to the right of the large tree, and then the long, low, camp kitchen with its many chimneys.
Moving on you see the SS Guardhouse and the famous gate with Arbeit Macht Frei (roughly, “Work Will Make You Free”) over the entrance.
This is where prisoners marched to and from slave labor, seen in the painting by Mieczyslaw Koscielniak – Reproduction courtesy of Auschwitz Museum Archive, 1980
See his art in the exhibition “Then and Now”
.
All photos and videos are Copyright Alan Jacobs and Remember.org.