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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.
- Death Wall
The Death Wall (reconstruction) Located in the yard at the...
- Extermination
These issues are presented with the help of photocopies of...
- Commemoration Signs
The grounds of the crematorium, the existing buildings, and...
- Life of Prisoners
Auschwitz I, Block 6 – The life of the prisoners A...
- Central Camp Baths
The object is mostly in its original state. Nearby are ruins...
- Living Conditions
Auschwitz I, Block 7 – Living and sanitary conditions...
- Death Block
Auschwitz I, Block 11 – The death block This building had...
- Evidence of Crime
Auschwitz I, Block 5 – Physical evidence of crime Items...
- Death Wall
The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. [1] Along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album, they are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.
Soviet POWs and the first groups of Jews sent to Auschwitz were murdered there. The last known case of killing with gas there was in December 1942. In the spring of 1942, a second gas chamber, known as the Little Red House, went into operation in Birkenau.
A gas chamber put into operation at the end of March 1942 in a house whose Polish owners had been expelled, located near the Birkenau camp under construction. The unplastered brick building was called the “Little Red House” because of the color of its walls.
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.
Nazi Germany made extensive use of various types of gas chambers for mass-murder during the Holocaust. Beginning in 1939, gas chambers were used as part of Aktion T4, an "involuntary euthanasia" program under which the Nazis murdered people with physical and intellectual disabilities, whom the Nazis considered "unworthy of life".
By 1943, four new crematoria, with gas chambers attached, had been built in Auschwitz-Birkenau. An estimated 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz, and approximately 1.1 million people were murdered in the Auschwitz gas chambers, including 1 million Jews.
