Historical pictures and documents
Women driven to gas chambers
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The picture was taken illegaly by the memebers of the Sonderkommando in 1944. Here we can see women driven by the SS-men to one of the gas chambers.
DownloadBurning of bodies
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The picture was taken illegaly by a members of the Sonderkomando. It shows burning bodies of victims of mass extermination in Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
DownloadBurning of bodies
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The picture was taken illegaly by a members of the Sonderkomando. It shows burning bodies of victims of mass extermination in Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
DownloadBuilding of crematory III
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Pouring out cement while building crematory and gas chamber III in Birkenau. Photo: SS. The picture was taken illegaly by a members of the Sonderkomando. It shows burning bodies of victims of mass extermination in Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
DownloadCrematory I
Author: Zbigniew Klawender (around 1946)
Crematory I in Auschwitz I. The picture was taken after the liberation.
DownloadCyclon B
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A can of Cyclon B used to mass killing of people in the gas chamber in KL Auschwitz-Birkenau.
DownloadCrematory IV
Author: SS
Crematory and gas chamber IV. 1943
DownloadCrematory IV
Author: SS
Building of crematory IV. 1943
DownloadCrematory IV
Author: SS
Building of crematory IV. 1943.
DownloadCrematory II
Author: SS
Crematory II, 1943
DownloadFurnace room in crematory II
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The picture was taken by the SS right before finishing the bulding in June 1943.
DownloadCrematory III
Author: SS
Crematory III
DownloadUnloading ramp and crematories in Birkenau
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An aerial photo taken by the South Africam pilots from a recconassaince unit of SAAF on August 25, 1944. Western part of the unloading ramp is visible, as well as crematories II and III and part of the camp.
DownloadUnloading ramp in 1942
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From spring 1942 to the middle of 1944 this was the place where trains with deported people stopped.
DownloadBefore selection in Birkenau
Author: SS
Jewish women and children waiting for a selection at the ramp in Birkenau. In the backgroudn there are barracks of Sector BIa. 1944
DownloadPersonal belongings
Author: Stanisław Mucha
Things that belonged to deported Jews found after the liberation.
DownloadJewish families at the ramp in Birkenau
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Family of Slovak Jewess Lili Jacob (her aunt Tauba with her four children) awaiting for a selection at the ramp in Birkenau. During the selection all were send to gas chambers.
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