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Alan Jacobs > The remains of Krematorium III at Birkenau (Auschwitz II), blown up by the SS as the Russians were approaching. This was done in an effort to hide their crimes. Above the rusted container and stretching to the left is a barbed wire fence running all the way to the front of the camp. It enclosed "The Ramp" where people (Jews, Roma, Sinti and others) were unloaded from freight trains and "selected" by an SS physician to go to the right, or left; to the gas or to slave labor.
For interactive map of Birkenau go to http://www.remember.org/camps/birkenau/index.html

Alan Jacobs > This was described as a segement of a burning pit near "the little white house" (officially Bunker II), a smaller facility for gassing only, way, way in the back of the camp, beyond the Suana and Kanada. The krematoria were always needing repair and during peak periods they could not handle the number of corpses to be burned. So pits were dug where bodies could be burned much faster. Supervising these burnings was SS-Hauptscharführer Otto Moll who was recalled from a sub-camp to be part of a new group for the "Hungarian Action". "A layer of wood, a layer of bodies, and petrol waste, and another layer of bodies etc. Trenches were dug along the sides to collect the fat run-off which was thrown on the burning bodies to intensify the heat". (personal communication Filip Muller, 1980)
For interactive map of Birkenau go to http://www.remember.org/camps/birkenau/index.html

Alan Jacobs > Birkenau, 1979
For interactive map of Birkenau go to http://www.remember.org/camps/birkenau/index.html

Alan Jacobs > The Krankenbau or camp hospital courtyard. Prisoners came to the hospital seeking, if nothing else, a brief respite from the killing work. Those too ill to work were killed by phenol injection to the heart, or sent to the gas. For a photo and survivor art showing these prisoners being whipped onto a truck for transport to the gas chamber, see http://remember.org/then-and-now/tn05.html

Alan Jacobs > This was the only ventilation for a basement cell in the Auschwitz 1 punishment center, Block 11. As many as twenty prisoners were crammed tighty into a small cell and left to suffocate.

Alan Jacobs > Extracting methane gas from human feces was unsucessfully attempted in cisterns like this located way in the rear of Birkenau. Every last ounce of energy was stolen from the victims.
For interactive map of Birkenau go to http://www.remember.org/camps/birkenau/index.html

It has always amazed, the thoroughness, the meticulous atteention to detail merely to surround the innocent.

> It has always amazed, the thoroughness, the meticulous atteention to detail merely to surround the innocent.

It has always amazed, the thoroughness, the meticulous atteention to detail merely to surround the innocent.

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