Birkenau Little Wood After they got off the transports the Jews selected for immediate extermination were brought here to await their sad fate. The road runs between two Krematoria, IV and V. Just in front of the tree...

Birkenau Men's Barrack Wooden barrack at BIIa, and used throughout the camp, originally designed as a horse stable. People were forced to sleep as many as six, and sometimes eight on each hutch level. These barracks were...

Birkenau Sauna This is where prisoners selected for slave labor were processed. Often people would have to wait outside naked in any weather. Here they would have to give up all their remaining possessions: money, jewels, even...

There was no privacy, very little water for washing and little or no opportunity for personal cleanliness in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Prisoners were often afflicted with typhus and other diarrhea-producing illnesses. The latrines in this barrack serviced seventeen...

This is the unloading Birkenau ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the spring and summer of 1944, long lines of cattle cars full of Hungarian Jews were shunted to this siding and unloaded. After a selection by an...

This Birkenau ramp switch and signal preside over the Nazi killing center near the rail entrance to Birkenau. A Doppelgänger is a ghostly counterpart and companion to a person. It is usually visible only to...

Birkenau Sauna - Disinfection These are small gas-chambers, designed to exterminate vermin, mainly lice, a population that thrived in Birkenau. There were many of these chambers, operated by prisoners, in the Birkenau Sauna. They were placed...

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