Birkenau Drainage Ditch It's just a drainage ditch, like so many millions around the world; only this one runs alongside the road between the two sections of the little wood. This is the same ditch seen...

Photography and Captions- Alan Jacobs Web Design - Krysia Jacobs, Brave New Web Art-Mieczyslaw Koscielniak (copyright Adam Koscielniak, all rights reserved) Archival Material: Archiwum Panstwowego Muzeum w Oswiecimiu Dzial Dokumentacji Mechanicznej Nr. neg. fotografii 138 (Archives of...

This is the Birkenau entrance gate for personnel (Auschwitz II). Through it trucks with supplies and people were driven, as well as the ambulances with the Red Cross painted on the side carrying the canisters...

This is the Birkenau rail entrance, the largest killing center in the entire Nazi system. Beyond the gate is what is generally known as “the ramp”. If you continue to look through this site, you...

This electrified fence, and its guard towers, is at the extreme outer edge of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Out of the picture to its left are the barracks of “A” lager. This was the quarantine section of the men’s...

This exhibit is arranged around a map of Birkenau. On the map, you can see many places which are labeled with red rectangles. Each one of those rectangles is a hot spot - clicking...

The concentration and death-camp complex at Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest killing center in the entire Nazi universe; the very heart of their system. Of the many sub-camps affiliated with Auschwitz, Birkenau, or Auschwitz II,...

Birkenau Krematorium II Photo 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...