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Alan Jacobs
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
Alan Jacobs
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...
Alan Jacobs
Birkenau Krematorium IV Ash Pit (#2)
Birkenau Krematorium IV Ash PitOne of the largest problems facing the murderers was what to do with the bodies.
Gassing was no problem, but the system was often overloaded by the sheer number of corpses,...
Alan Jacobs
Birkenau railway line: The End of the Line
Birkenau Railway Line endLong 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
Birkenau Fence Lamp
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Alan Jacobs
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
Birkenau Prisoners Reception: The Sauna
Birkenau SaunaThis 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...
Alan Jacobs
Birkenau BIIf Fence
Birkenau Bllf Fence
Each of hundreds of thousands of these insulators in this camp, and the wire wrapped around each of them, reminds that the quest for a perfect order is futile.
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