The main post with useful information and my impressions about visiting the Auschwitz concentration camp, I already wrote. Here, on the contrary, there will be only photos from the Auschwitz I concentration camp. Impressive look is not recommended, but on the other hand, but how else—.
Let me remind you, Auschwitz is a Polish city that is in war the Germans called Auschwitz. It is a complex of two concentration camps Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II, located a couple of kilometers apart (visited separately). Photos from Auschwitz II camp can also be look at the link.
Auschwitz 1 was built in 1940 on the basis of the former barracks, therefore, those who came here were somewhat luckier than those who landed in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp (Auschwitz 2). Here are the barracks more solid, brick, two-story, with heating less decent.
Barracks, or more correctly blocks, stand in 3 rows. First row by most are closed to the public, the second row is the exposure different countries, the third row is the reconstruction of various rooms (or there may be a direct reconstruction of the whole block to be). By the way, looked Exposition of Russia, Poland, Slovakia, Israel and some other country So in my opinion the Russian exposition was the best among of them. There are old documents there, and a lot of things and photos (in electron form on the screen), and the projector was saturated. Rest quite simple.
Concentration camp Auschwitz I – the inscription at the entrance Labor frees
Barbed wire looks weird even in sunny weather.
Each block is signed
Concentration camp in Auschwitz Auschwitz 1
Platz, where prisoners were counted, if someone was missing, could spend hours in the cold
One of the expositions
The book of names in the exposition of Israel
This made tattoos with numbers
Photos on the Russian exposition
Photos on the Russian exposition
Photos on the Russian exposition
High voltage barbed wire around the camp
Chess Figures for Bread
Fragment of the original crematorium door
In Auschwitz 1 there was one crematorium converted from a vegetable store. After testing the Cyclone B in public, the building was redesigned and appeared in the gas chamber. The camera functioned from 41 to 42 years old, and after it was redone in bomb shelter. Now everything is reconstructed from the original details.
Crematorium in the Auschwitz concentration camp 1
Gas chamber at the crematorium
These switches seemed to me some sinister
Crematorium kiln in Auschwitz 1
The whole ceiling is black
The gallows on which Rudolf Hoess was hanged, commandant camps
I don’t have to go to the countries ’exposition, I think it’s all (or much) can be found on the Internet. Much more interesting (if you can so to speak, because “interesting” is not quite the appropriate word in this case) the third row of blocks. They contain prisoners’ belongings, as well as there you can see firsthand the conditions in which people lived and died— In Particularly block 10 and 11 is a death block. Here the cameras are like ordinary and standing, the wall around which people were shot, premises for various purposes.
Blankets in the death block
Three-story bunks in the death block
The room where women undressed before execution
The wall around which people were shot
Reconstruction of this wall
Cameras in the basement of the Death Block
Camera in the basement of the Death Block. There are also standing cameras
Mesh chamber windows
Residential unit so slept until 1941
Excursion in Auschwitz (Auschwitz 1) – there are many, many photos everywhere the dead
Bathroom
The water has always been cold and its quantity is limited.
Privileged prisoners (looking after others) lived better
Living room with three-storey bunks
Prisoners’ clothes in Auschwitz
In many blocks hang various photos
Schoolchildren from Israel on excursions in Auschwitz. Our not saw.
The floor and stairs in the blocks are crushed
The same granulated Cyclone B, which poisoned people
Many went with things and took all the values, they just thought resettled
Prisoners’ Things – Thousands of Points
They even took prostheses and other devices.
Thousands of bowls
Hair of women killed in gas chambers. About 2t. Were sold then 50 pfenings per 1 kg
Children’s toys and things
A whole container of baby shoes
Huge hall with shoes for adults
Barbed wire in two rows
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