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In this deeply moving and educational video, we explore the harrowing history of the Auschwitz gas chambers, a grim symbol of the Holocaust and the atrocitie...
The number of people sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz was staggering. Irene discusses how she was forced to sort through the belongings of people murde...
Auschwitz I, Crematorium I and the first gas chamber. This object is preserved in its original state to a large degree. Crematorium I operated from August 1940 in a prewar army barracks storage building adapted for its new function.
After they were killed, Sonderkommando prisoners dragged the corpses out of the gas chambers. They cut off the women’s hair and removed all metal dental work and jewelry. Then they burned the corpses in pits, on pyres, or in the crematorium furnaces.
Gas chambers. After the successful test of using gas to kill prisoners in the basement of block 11, the first gas chamber was set up in Auschwitz I. It went into operation in the autumn of 1941 in a converted facility that had previously served as a morgue associated with the first camp crematorium.
Most notably, during the Holocaust large-scale gas chambers designed for mass killing were used by Nazi Germany from the late 1930s, as part of the Aktion T4, and later for its genocide program.
Video summary. Dan Snow introduces a report about the use of gas as a method of killing Jewish prisoners. This started at Chelmno camp in Poland. Vans were used initially to kill mentally ill...
