Photo of the concentration camp in Auschwitz - Auschwitz II Birkenau

My main post with impressions and useful information about concentration camp Auschwitz, read the link. And here are photos from the Auschwitz 2 camp or, as it is also called, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Let me remind you that Auschwitz is a Polish city that the Germans renamed Auschwitz during the war. In Auschwitz there is a complex of two concentration camps Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II, located a couple of kilometers from each other. Auschwitz's photos 1.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp was built immediately as an extermination camp, while Auschwitz 1 was more of a labor camp. So, they built it on a grand scale: an area with a huge area, divided into several sectors, 4 crematoria, 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 did not finish, 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 to see with the eyes (no prisoners' belongings, no exhibitions), compared to Auschwitz 1, but much more can be «feel» feet. It takes at least two hours to walk around the entire camp, looking into the reconstruction of the barracks, stopping to look at the ruins of blown up crematoria, or reading the inscriptions on the stands, and you will have to walk pretty quickly. The scale of the factory for processing people is amazing ... Someone purposefully sat and developed such a complex, the sole purpose of which was to destroy as much as possible, cheaper and more efficiently.

Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp - the gate of death

Auschwitz-Birkenau has a huge territory

People were brought here in such cars, 50-100 people inside

The railway gate of death from within

Unloading from the train, most of them were immediately sent to the gas chambers

Ruins of the blown up crematorium

People are waiting for their turn in the gas chamber

Most of the buildings have not survived, as they were wooden

Residential brick barrack of the women's camp

There are several people on each tier

Very weak stove heating

Bunks around the perimeter

Inside you can try to feel what it was like to live here

We washed ourselves with cold water

Memorial in memory of the victims, tablets in several languages

Some of the visitors brought stones from afar

On the outskirts of Auschwitz-Birkenau

Wastewater treatment plant in Birkenau

Wastewater treatment plant in Birkenau

Sauna building next to the Canada sector

Guards move around the camp on segways

Guards move around the camp on segways

In place of one of the barracks under glass are household items (sector Canada)

Ruins of another crematorium in Auschwitz-Birkenau

Several wooden barracks have been recreated in Auschwitz-Birkenau, most of them closed to the public. Reconstruction work continues. Inside, everything is about the same as inside the brick barracks, but I suppose that living in them was even harder. Heating alone is worth it, stoves with long chimneys along the entire room gave very little heat, given the cracks in the walls. Could live in each barracks for 1000 people.

Photo of real wooden barracks

Reconstruction of Birkenau wooden barracks

Inside the wooden barque bunks and long chimneys of the stove heating

Toilet reconstruction

Post-apocalyptic landscape at Auschwitz-Birkenau

A lot of visitors are coming to the camp now ...