Auschwitz/Birkenau Anteroom to the Gas

Anteroom to the Gas Auschwitz/Birkenau Prayer Shawls |  Home | Auschwitz/Birkenau Black Wall The Hospital Block courtyard at Auschwitz. © 1980, 1996 Alan Jacobs all rights reserved

Babi Yar Poem By Yevgeni Yevtushenko

Return to Witnesses' "Growing up in Russia, I experienced antisemitism; personally directed, ubiquitous, and violent,covertly approved of by the government. Yevgeni Yevtushenko's poem, written to expose the inhumanity of Babi Yar, and the subsequent injustice...

Birkenau Guard Tower on the Ramp

Birkenau Guard tower squatting over the unloading ramp at Birkenau, seeming still to cast about its antennae, looking for prey. < Birkenau Ramp Switch | Birkenau Railway Line > Map | List of Photos |...

Birkenau Women’s Camp – Barrack BIb (#2)

Birkenau Women's Camp Barrack BIb (#2) One understands former prisoner-author Elie Wiesel’s title “Night” somewhat more deeply after even “visiting” here. < Birkenau Women's Barrack BLB | Birkenau Krematorium II > Map List of Photos Home Help Author

Birkenau Women’s Barrack BIb (#1)

Birkenau Women's Barrack BIb Barrack consisting of “sixty-two bays each with three ‘roosts’. A roost was originally supposed to hold three prisoners, but Bischoff’s numerology increased the capacity to four. To sleep, to sit, and keep...

Birkenau Women’s Gate – Now and Then

Birkenau Gate to the Women’s Camp The gate at Birkenau where women prisoners were marched from their barracks to and from slave-labor. This drawing is one in a series by former prisoner and survivor, artist Mieczyslaw...

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