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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 II (#1)
Birkenau Krematorium IIPhoto from inside Krematorium II looking south.
The structure above is the collapsed roof, dynamited by the SS. The Sonderkommando, that is special prisoner workers, lived in the attic of this part.
On the...
Alan Jacobs
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...
Alan Jacobs
Birkenau Krematorium II Small Gauge Track (#2)
Krematorium IIThis Krematorium II small-gauge track was one of fifteen leading to five furnaces consisting of three retorts each.
At first small metal trolleys containing the bodies of gassed victims were pushed by prisoners to...
Alan Jacobs
Birkenau Entrance Gate
Birkenau entrance gate to one of the two large extermination areas.This is the entrance to one of the two large extermination areas in Birkenau.
During the time of the camp, a fence made of branches surrounded it,...
Alan Jacobs
Birkenau Gas Chambers – Krematorium II
Birkenau Gas Chambers UndergroundThis is the roof of the underground gas chambers of Krematorium II.
In the days of its use, the concrete was covered with grass turf. Inside, there were two gas chambers separated...
Alan Jacobs
Birkenau Men’s Barrack in BIIa, Quarantine
Birkenau Men's BarrackWooden 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...
