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.
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Burning 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.
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Burning 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.
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Building 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.
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Crematory I
Author: Zbigniew Klawender (around 1946)
Crematory I in Auschwitz I. The picture was taken after the liberation.
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Cyclon B
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A can of Cyclon B used to mass killing of people in the gas chamber in KL Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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Crematory IV
Author: SS
Crematory and gas chamber IV. 1943
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Crematory IV
Author: SS
Building of crematory IV. 1943
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Crematory IV
Author: SS
Building of crematory IV. 1943.
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Crematory II
Author: SS
Crematory II, 1943
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Furnace room in crematory II
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The picture was taken by the SS right before finishing the bulding in June 1943.
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Crematory III
Author: SS
Crematory III
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Unloading 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.
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Unloading 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.
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Before 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
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Personal belongings
Author: Stanisław Mucha
Things that belonged to deported Jews found after the liberation.
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Jewish 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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