ФОТОГАЛЕРЕЯ

Portable gallows in the corridor of Block 11. Such gallows were used for executions of prisoners in the camp.

The basement of Block 11 was used by Politische Abteilung (camp Gestapo) as a prison for members of the camp resistance movement.

 

Ruins of the Gas Chamber and Crematorium 2. Hundreds of thousands of the camp victims were gassed and cremated here.

A larine in the female sector. There is a German inscription on the wall: ”Behave quietly!” 

Wall of Death - execution site of thousands of prisoners, mainly members of the camp resistance movement as well as prisoners from the Gestapo prison in Katowice.

The pond in the vicinity of Crematoria 4 and 5 was used for dumping ahses of the bodies incinerated in these crematoria.

Barracks in the female sector of the camp in Birkenay. The camp fence is visible in the foreground, then remnants of wooden barracks. One of the watch towers appears in the background.

In the foreground, there is the camp fence and behind it there are wooden barracks of the quarantine sector.

The Gas Chamber and Crematorium 1 in the main camp. Thousands of the camp victims perished here and their corpses were incinerated in the furnaces of the Crematorium.

The unloading road inside the camp Birkenau , where the SS doctors carried out selections among Jewish people who just arrived into the camp. In the back  – ground the main gate of the camp.

The gate “Arbeit match frei” in the main camp. Prisoners passed it every day on the way to work.