When prisoners were too ill or weak they made their way or were taken to the camp “hospital”.

More often then not prisoners who came to this place either died here of “natural causes” such as exhaustion, typhus, dysentery, were given a phenol injection in the heart, or were taken to the gas.

Water Color: Jerzy Potrzebowski

Reproduction courtesy of Auschwitz Museum Archive, 1980

Prisoners came to the hospital seeking, if nothing else, a brief respite from the killing work.

*Gawalewicz, A. (2000) Reflections From The Waiting Room to the Gas, Oswiecim: State Museum at Auschwitz.

*Gawalewicz, A. (2000) Refleksje z poczekalni do Gazu, Oswiecim: Panstwowe Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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