Birkenau Sauna - Disinfection These are small gas-chambers, designed to exterminate vermin, mainly lice, a population that thrived in Birkenau. There were many of these chambers, operated by prisoners, in the Birkenau Sauna. They were placed...

  Alan Jacobs has been to Auschwitz and Birkenau many times. During those visits, he interviewed numerous survivors and took many photographs of the camps. He also spent many hours viewing artifacts, art and photographs stored...

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Photography and Captions- Alan Jacobs Other photographs: Scott Sakansky Archival Material: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM). Web Design - Krysia Jacobs, Brave New Web Mauthausen Map - Home | Introduction | Credits

Among many other speudo-scientific “experiments”, SS doctors removed organs from living people, bottled and stored them on shelves in the dissecting room. They skinned prisoners with interesting tattoos and sold them as book covers, gloves,...

Six thousand souls waited in this courtyard for 24 hours. In the end, about 140 of them were dead. Photo credit: Franz Amicale Collection, USHMM Photo Archives Date: Jul 1941 < Mauthausen Experiments | Mauthausen Commandant> Mauthausen Map – Home | Introduction | Credits

Take pause from your busy life for just a few moments and try to imagine what it must have been like to know this was the last room you would ever be in or...

There were many different ways to kill prisoners at Mauthausen and at first gassing was not needed. But as more and more prisoners were transported to the camp, it became necessary. The SS even converted a...