Birkenau

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 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 |...

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...

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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...

Introduction Map List of Photos Credits Birkenau Photos # Title Description 1 The Hole in the World Rail entrance to Auschwitz/Birkenau. 2 Inside Out Personnel and truck entrance 3 The Ramp The unloading Ramp at Auschwitz/Birkenau. 4 Doppelgänger Rail Switch on the Ramp 5 Guard Tower on the Ramp 6 The End of...

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 Camp Hospital in the Distance Many, many people awaited their final end here in this place. To our back is Krematorium IV. In the distance, beyond the trees, is the Birkenau sub-camp BIIf, the...