Auschwitz I: First crematorium at Auschwitz. Poland. 259a

            Before the war this building was a munition bunker.  From 15 August 1940 to July 1943 the SS used it as crematorium.  In the autumn of 1941, the largest room, which had been designed by the camp authorities as a morgue, was adopted for use as an improvised gas chamber, the first of its king in Auschwitz.  Using the gas produced by pellets of Zyklon B, man thousands of Jews were murdered here by the SS within hours of their arrival at Auschwitz.  Several groups of Soviet POWs were also murdered here in this way, as were sick prisoners whose return t work was considered unlikely.  Poles from outside the camp who had been sentenced to death by the German summary court were shot here.  After the establishment in Auschwitz II-Birkenau of two more improvised gas chambers in spring and summer of 1942 for the mass murder of the Jews, the gassings here were gradually stopped.  Later, with the completion in Auschwitz II of four purpose-built gas chambers with crematoria, the burning of corpses here was also stopped (July 1943).  (sign at  the building).

Up to 700 people at a time could be gassed here.  People undressed outside, or just inside the door.  As you enter, bear right and find your way into the big "shower room".  Look for the vents in the ceiling--this is where the SS men dropped the Zyklong-B.  In the adjacent room is a replica of the furnace.  This facility could burn 34 bodies a day -- so it took two days to burn all the bodies from one round of executions.  The Nazies didn't like this inefficiency, so they build four more huge crematoria at Birkenau.  (Rick Stevens Snapshot travelguide to Krakow, Warsaw & Gdansk)

[Colors are muted in many of the photographs taken in Auschwitz  and although there are many historical photographs of individuals and personal possessions they will not be shown in respect to the somber nature of the holocaust.]  

Auschwitz I, the main camp in the Auschwitz camp complex, is the first camp established near Oswiecim. Construction began in May 1940 in the Zasole suburb of Oswiecim, in artillery barracks formerly used by the Polish army. The camp is continuously expanded through the use of forced labor. Although Auschwitz I is primarily a concentration camp, serving a penal function, it also has a gas chamber and crematorium. An improvised gas chamber is located in the basement of the prison (Block 11). Later, a gas chamber is constructed in the crematorium.

The Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. 

Auschwitz was the largest camp established by the Germans. It was a complex of camps, including a concentration, extermination, and forced-labor camp. It was located at the town of Oswiecim near the prewar German-Polish border in Eastern Upper Silesia, an area annexed to Germany in 1939. Auschwitz I was the main camp and the first camp established at Oswiecim. Auschwitz II (Birkenau) was the killing center at Auschwitz. Trains arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau almost daily with transports of Jews from virtually every German-occupied country of Europe. Auschwitz III, also called Buna or Monowitz, was established in Monowice to provide forced laborers for nearby factories, including the I.G. Farben works. At least 1.1 million Jews were killed in Auschwitz. Other victims included between 70,000 and 75,000 Poles, 21,000 Roma, and about 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war

Taken in: Poland / Lesser Poland / Oświęcim / Oświęcim (show map)

Taken on: September 29, 2019

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Camera: Sony ILCA-99M2, f/2.8, 1/20 sec, 24mm, ISO 3200 (more info) (hide info)

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