Alan Jacobs Exhibits
Auschwitz/Birkenau Canada
"Canada" and Small Spoons
< Cremation Pit | Home | Shoes > Jews were told to bring their essential belongings on the transport to "Relocation". Immediately on unloading, these were taken away and sorted in large warehouses...
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Auschwitz/Birkenau Anteroom to the Gas
Anteroom to the Gas
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The Hospital Block courtyard at Auschwitz.
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Birkenau Guard Tower on the Ramp
Birkenau Guard tower
squatting over the unloading ramp at Birkenau, seeming still to cast about its antennae, looking for prey.
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Birkenau Women’s Barrack BIb (#1)
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...
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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.
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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...
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Birkenau Fence Lamp
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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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