My main post with impressions and useful information about Auschwitz concentration campread the link. And here are photos from the Auschwitz 2 camp or, as it is also called, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Let me remind you, Auschwitz is a Polish city that the Germans re-named Auschwitz during the war. In Auschwitz is a complex of two concentration camps Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II, located a couple of kilometers from each other. Photos Auschwitz 1.
Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp wasbuilt immediately as a death camp, while Auschwitz 1 was more labor. So, they were built in a big way: an area with a huge area, divided into several sectors, 4 crematoriums, combined with gas chambers. The first section was commissioned in 1942, the second in 43-44, the third began to be built in 44, but not finished, the fourth did not have time to start. What would have happened if the war ended later, it’s scary to imagine.
There is much less that you can see with your eyes.(there are no prisoners' things, no exposures), compared to Auschwitz 1, but much more can be “felt” by the legs. To walk around the whole camp, looking at the reconstruction of the barracks, stopping to look at the ruins of blown-up crematoria, or reading the inscriptions on the stands, you need at least two hours, and you will have to walk quite quickly. The scale of the factory for processing people is amazing ... Someone purposefully sat and developed such a complex, whose sole purpose was to destroy as much as possible, cheaper and more efficiently.
Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp - Gate of Death
Auschwitz-Birkenau has a huge territory
In such cars people were brought here, 50-100 people inside
Railway gates of death from the inside
Unloading from the train, most of them were immediately sent to the gas chambers.
Ruins of a blown up crematorium
People stand waiting for their turn in the gas chamber
Most of the buildings were not preserved, as they were wooden
Residential brick hut female camp
On each tier for several people
Very weak stove heating
Nary around the perimeter
Inside you can try to feel what it was like to live
Bathed in cold water
Memorial to the victims, signs in several languages
Someone from visitors brought stones from far away
On the outskirts of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Wastewater treatment plant at Birkenau
Wastewater treatment plant at Birkenau
Sauna building near the Canada sector
Guards move around the camp on segway
Guards move around the camp on segway
In place of one of the barracks under the glass are household items (sector Canada)
Ruins of another crematorium in Auschwitz-Birkenau
In Auschwitz-Birkenau, several woodenbarracks, most are closed to the public. Renovation work continues. Inside, everything is about the same as inside the brick barracks, but I assume that it was even harder to live in them. One heating is worth it, the stoves with long chimneys along the whole room gave very little heat, taking into account the cracks in the walls. Could live in each barrack for 1000 people.
Photo of real wooden huts
Reconstruction of the wooden huts of Birkenau
Inside the wooden bark of the bunks and long chimneys of furnace heating
Toilet renovation
Post-apocalyptic landscape in Auschwitz-Birkenau
Many visitors come to the camp now ...
