My main post with impressions and useful information about Auschwitz concentration camp, read the link. And then the photos from the camp Auschwitz 2 or, as it is also called, Auschwitz-Birkenau. I will remind you Auschwitz is a Polish city that the Germans re-named in Auschwitz during the war. In Auschwitz is a complex of two concentration camps Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II, located a couple of kilometers apart. Photos of Auschwitz 1.
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was built immediately in as a death camp, while Auschwitz 1 was more labor So, built on a grand scale: a territory with a huge area, divided into several sectors, 4 crematorium, combined with gas chambers. The first parcel was put into commissioned in 1942, the second in 43-44, the third began to build in 44, but not finished, the fourth did not have time to start. What would be here was, if the war ended later, scary to imagine.
There is much less of what you can see with your eyes (no things prisoners, there is no exposure), compared with Auschwitz 1, but much more can be “felt” with their feet. To get around the whole camp, peering into the reconstruction of the barracks, stopping to look at the ruins of blown up crematoriums, or by reading the inscriptions on the stands, you need at least two hours, and you have to walk pretty fast. The scale of the human recycling factory striking— Someone purposefully sat and developed such a complex whose sole purpose was to destroy more, cheaper and more efficient.
Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp – Gate of Death
Auschwitz-Birkenau has a huge territory
In such cars people were brought here, 50-100 people inside
Railway gates of death from the inside
Unloading from the train, most of it was immediately sent to the gas cameras
Ruins of a blown up crematorium
People stand waiting for their turn in the gas chamber
Most of the buildings have not been preserved since they were wooden
Residential brick hut female camp
On each tier for several people
Very weak stove heating
Nara around the perimeter
Inside you can try to feel what it was like to live
Bathed in cold water
Memorial to the victims, signs in several languages
Someone from visitors brought stones from far away
On the outskirts of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Wastewater treatment plant at Birkenau
Wastewater treatment plant at Birkenau
Sauna building near the Canada sector
The guards move around the camp on Segway
The guards move around the camp on Segway
In the place of one of the barracks under the glass are household items (sector Canada)
Ruins of another crematorium in Auschwitz-Birkenau
In Auschwitz-Birkenau, several wooden barracks were recreated most are closed to the public. Renovation works are going on. Inside, everything is about the same as inside brick huts, but I assume that it was even harder to live in them. One heating costs, stoves with long chimneys all along the premises gave quite a bit of heat, given the cracks in the walls. Live could in each barrack 1000 people.
Photo of real wooden huts
Reconstruction of the wooden huts of Birkenau
Inside the wooden bark of the bunks and long chimneys of the furnace heating
Toilet renovation
Post-apocalyptic landscape in Auschwitz-Birkenau
Many visitors are coming to the camp now—
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