Alan Jacobs Exhibits
Birkenau Krematorium IV Ruins (#3)
Birkenau Krematorium IV Ruins
All that is left of Krematoriun IV. It was burned by the Sonderkommando in their revolt of October, 1944 and subsequently dismantled by the SS before running from the advancing Soviet...
Alan Jacobs Exhibits
Birkenau Krematorium V (#1)
Birkenau Krematorium V Floor
This is the floor of the gas chamber at Krematorium V, Birkenau.
Life somehow manages to prevail, even though one would think nothing could ever flourish here.
This simple moss is a fitting...
Alan Jacobs Exhibits
Birkenau Krematorium V Furnace Walls (#2)
This blackened and charred pile of bricks are all that remain of the walls of the double, four muffle furnace of Krematorium V.
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Alan Jacobs Exhibits
Birkenau Krematorium V Ruins (#3)
These are the ruins of Krematorium V at Birkenau.
The number and size of the death and disposal facilities here illustrate just how extensive was the Nazi plan to exterminate all the Jews they could...
Alan Jacobs Exhibits
Birkenau railway line: The End of the Line
Birkenau Railway Line end
Long trains of cattle cars hauled their cargo of humans to this unloading ramp inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, or to other ramps very close by.
They were brought from all over Europe: the Greek...
Alan Jacobs Exhibits
Birkenau Mexico Fence
Birkenau Mexico Fence Small prisoner standing at attention during roll call. < Birkenau Fence Lamp | Birkenau Men's Barracks > Map | List of Photos | Home
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Birkenau Shower- Right Side of the Little Wood
Birkenau - Right Side of the Little Wood
This is the right side of the Little Wood. People were made to wait here for what they had been told was a disinfecting Birkenau shower.
The ruins...
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Birkenau Ash Pond Photo
Into this pond were dumped the ashes of many tens of thousands of people, mostly Jews, who were gassed at Krematorium IV, just behind and to the left.
The “little wood” can be seen behind...

