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...

This blackened and charred pile of bricks are all that remain of the walls of the double, four muffle furnace of Krematorium V. < Birkenau Krematorium V |  Birkenau Krematorium V Ruins>> Map | List...

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...

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...

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...