Alan Jacobs Exhibits

Between spring 1942 to May 1944, about half a million Jewish men, women, and children were transported here from various countries occupied by or allied with Nazi Germany, and from Germany itself. Until the huge...

In this field, the Birkenau Woods Incineration, people were also burned in large cremation pits. On the other side of the trees in the distance was Krematorium V and its burning pits.More Auschwitz Birkenau...

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...

This is one part of the Birkenau Sauna interior in 3 videos. New prisoners were brought here first. Here they would have to give up all their remaining possessions: money, jewels, even wedding rings...

This is where prisoners selected for slave labor were processed at the Birkenau Sauna and Kanada. Often people would have to wait outside naked in any weather. Here they would have to give up all...

Birkenau Krematorium V gas chambers had four rooms, which are just over the low brick wall and beyond. krematorium V (officially Badeanstalt für Sonderaktion or "Bathhouse for Special Action") was unique among the large Birkenau crematoria...

Between Krematoria IV and the Little Wood is a Birkenau Ash pond, one that was used to dump the ashes of the murdered victims. The ash pond sits at the edge of Birkenau, between...

Behind the main camp there were two more crematoria. Krems IV, and V. See 1943 photo of Krematorium IV below.Scrolling around to the left you see the entirety of the Birkenau Little Wood on...