There are five images below of Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp located near Krakow, Poland
This picture is of the barbed wire fences located at the main Auschwitz camp. These are probably not
the original fences built during the
camp's existence.
This railway bar was used to hang prisoners. Located within
viewing distance of this hanging area is a large courtyard where others
would witness the
hanging. The last hanging took place in January 1945 just weeks
before the liberation of the camp by the Russian Red Army.
This picture was taken illegally. It is inside one of the
remaining shower rooms at Auschwitz. This is the opening where the SS
guards would drop the gas that was used to murder those inside.
Inside this room are a number of very dim incadecent lights and a
number of shower heads. The sonderkommandos had to remove the bodies
and transport them to the ovens. The SS dropped the gas from the
rooftop.
Here are some pictures of inmates at Auschwitz. It is assumed
that they were sonderkommandos. They were forced to do the gruesome
work of
transporting the bodies to the crematoriums, cleaning the showers where
the victims were gassed and removing any belongings from the bodies.
They did this on threat of their own lives. They were executed after a
few months of work and others were chosen.
This is what is left of the barracks at Birkenau. All that remains are the chimneys and the
foundations of the barracks. One can see the size of Birkenau. Up to 72,000 people were housed here in
deplorable conditions. Most of the people who arrived here were
immediately gassed. Others may have worked at the nearby munitions factories. Others were used as guinea
pigs for Nazi experiments. Those who lived were fed starvation
diets and usually died or were shot within a few months.