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    Auschwitz Death Camp

    Auschwitz Death Camp, Oswiecim, Poland.
    Photos taken by Dr. Michael Schneider, Macalester College

    museum sign

    Museum Entrance

    gate

    Entrance to Auschwitz I and entry gate. Camp I was mainly for political prisoners. Jews were, for the most part, sent to Birkenau.

    gate

    Entrance to Auschwitz I and sign "ARBEIT MACHT FREI"  "WORK LIBERATES"

    crematorium

    Crematorium Auschwitz I

    entrance from insideentrance from inside

    Entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau SS barracks and rail line inside looking out.

    parimeter

    Auschwitz-Birkenau: Barracks and perimeter. Wide angle photo.

    monument

    Auschwitz-Birkenau Monument. Text - "FOR EVER LET THIS PLACE BE A CRY OF DESPAIR AND A WARNING TO HUMANITY WHERE THE NAZIS MUREDERED ABOUT ONE AND A HALF MILLION MEN, WOMEN, AND CHILDREN, MAINLY JEWS FROM VARIOUS COUNTRIES OF EUROPE.AUSCHWITZ - BIRKENAU 1940-1945"

    fence

    Aushwitz-Brikenau barracks(left) and perimeter electric fence

    electric fence

    Auschwitz-Birkenau pylons of electric fence

    bunkbeds

    Barracks and bunk beds that held 5 or 6 people on each shelf