The most cruel part of Polish history. The Nazis murdered here more than 2 million people during World War II. After 60 years, this place is still extremely depressing. Here are photos of Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps today...

The entrance gate says: "Work Will Make You Free"

Double rows of barbed wire surround the whole area

The trees should remember what happened here 60 years ago

Children's clothes are still there as well as lots of other prisoners' belongings

Boarded up windows in block 11 prevented the prisoners from seeing executions in the court

Prisoners' portraits, with dates of arrival and death

The room of an SS official

The chimney of the main Auschwitz crematorium

The entrance to the gas chamber and the crematorium

Stoves

2 kilometres away... Birkenau, the women's camp

Barracks

The interior of one of them

Commemorating the Jews and the Jewish nation

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Pictures of Auschwitz part I

Auschwitz was the largest of the Nazi German concentration camps. Located in southern Poland, it took its name from the nearby town of Oswiecim (Auschwitz in German), situated about 50 kilometers west of Kraków and 286 kilometers from Warsaw. Following the Nazi occupation of Poland in September 1939, Oswiecim was incorporated into Germany and renamed Auschwitz. The camp complex consisted of three main camps: Auschwitz I, the administrative center; Auschwitz II (Birkenau), an extermination camp or Vernichtungslager; and Auschwitz III (Monowitz), a work camp. There were also around 40 satellite camps, some of them tens of kilometers from the main camps, with prisoner populations ranging from several dozen to several thousand. An unknown, but very large, number of people were killed at Auschwitz. The camp commandant, Rudolf Höss, testifed at the Nuremberg Trials that three million had died there. The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum revised this figure in 1990, and new calculations now place the figure at 1.1-1.6 million, about 90 percent of them Jews from almost every country in Europe. Methods of killing people at Auschwitz included, primarily, gassing with Zyklon-B; systematic starvation, lack of disease prevention, individual executions and so-called medical experiments accounted for the rest. [wikipedia.org]

This collection shows the cruelty of Nazi concentration camp in KL Auschwitz I A horrific comprehensive report from the Auschwitz Museum where no details have been changed since World War II. Most of the camp buildings survived intact. See the material evidence of crimes and follow the everyday life of a prisoner. 130 photographs of Auschwitz I on this CD include: "Arbeit Macht Frei" entrance gate piles of prisoners' belongings original Nazi documents living and sanitary conditions Block 11 and Death Wall cells and prisons crematorium and the interior of a gas chamber Auschwitz in winter Most photographs are approximately 2048 x 1536 pixels in size saved in jpg format. No reconstructions, everything is real in all details. Price of a single collection: 9.99 GBP For other currencies PayPal does automatic conversion. All major credit and debit cards accepted.

 

Pictures of Auschwitz Birkenau part II

Auschwitz II (Birkenau) is a camp that many people know simply as "Auschwitz" (it was larger than Auschwitz I, and more people passed through its gates than did those of Auschwitz I). It was a purpose-built camp for extermination purposes. It was the site of imprisonment of hundreds of thousands, and of the killing of over one million people, mainly Jews but also large numbers of Poles, and Gypsies, mostly through gassing. The Nazis established Auschwitz in April 1940 under the direction of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. The camp originally housed political prisoners from occupied Poland and from concentration camps within Germany. Construction of nearby Birkenau (in Polish, Brzezinka), also known as Auschwitz II, began in October 1941. Birkenau had four gas chambers, designed to resemble showers, and four crematoria, used to incinerate bodies. [wikipedia.org]

This collection shows the cruelty of Nazi concentration camp in KL Birkenau II A horrific comprehensive report from the Auschwitz Museum where no details have been changed since World War II. Most of the camp buildings survived intact. See the material evidence of crimes and follow the everyday life of a prisoner. 118 photographs of Auschwitz Birkenau II on this CD include: the main gate railway ramp camp buildings and their interiors wooden beds bathrooms ruins of crematoria destroyed by the Nazis the monument All photographs are 3008x 2000 pixels in size saved in jpg format. No reconstructions, everything is real in all details. Price of a single collection: 9.99 GBP For other currencies PayPal does automatic conversion. All major credit and debit cards accepted.

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