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Auschwitz I served as the administrative centre and was the site of the deaths of roughly 70,000 people, mostly ethnic Poles and Soviet prisoners of war.
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Zyklon B, a highly lethal cyanide-based pesticide. During WWII, the chemical was deliberately made without a warning odorant.
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Belongings of Jews confiscated by the Nazis. These storage warehouses at Auschwitz-Birkenau, located near two of the crematoria, were called “Canada,” because the Poles regarded that country as a place of great riches.
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There were 30 warehouses for the personal belongings confiscated from the victims at Auschwitz.
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The work of sorting the possessions that the Jews brought with them was done by Jewish prisoners who were forced to collect the packages and sort the items that would then be sent to the Reich.
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Prisoners
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Prisoners slept on straw “mattresses”.
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Where female prisoners stripped before their execution. Prisoners were then led in twos to the yard and shot at the death wall. This exhibit was in Block 11, which was called by prisoners “the Block of Death”. Block 11 was intended solely to punish prisoners through torture.
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The camp was surrounded by high voltage barbed wired fences.
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Crematorium and gas chamber (next door), were re-constructed using original material. In Auschwitz I.
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Danger. High voltage electrical wires.
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It is estimated that about 90% of the victims of Auschwitz died in Birkenau. This means approximately a million people, most of them Jews, in addition to an additional 100,000 which made up of Poles, Gypsies, Soviet POWs and prisoners of other nationalities.
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Latrine.
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This is where the selection process took place – to labour camp or gas chamber.
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Photo showing selection process.
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“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”. George Santayana
Auschwitz – beyond words
| 19 images“This is not a museum. It is a cemetery.” – guide at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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