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Alan Jacobs > A basement door in the SS dynamited Krematorium III, Birkenau, (photo 1980).
For interactive map of Birkenau go to http://www.remember.org/camps/birkenau/index.html

Alan Jacobs > Part of the ruins of Krematorium II Birkenau, as photographed in 1980. The Nazi camp personnel, the Totenkopf SS, dismantled the gas chamber and krematorium hardware and blew up the buildings in an effort to avoid discovery in the face of the advancing Russians who liberated the camp in Jan. 1945. Many people mistakenly think Auschwitz, and Birkenau (Auschwitz II) are in Germany; actually they're in Poland.
For interactive map of Birkenau go to http://www.remember.org/camps/birkenau/index.html

Alan Jacobs > Part of the ruins of Krematorium II Birkenau, as photographed in 1980.
For interactive map of Birkenau go to http://www.remember.org/camps/birkenau/index.html

Alan Jacobs > Part of the ruins of Krematorium II Birkenau, as photographed in 1980. The building in the distance is a barrack in BIb, the women's camp.
For interactive map of Birkenau go to http://www.remember.org/camps/birkenau/index.html

Alan Jacobs > Auschwitz I lamp on the electrified barbed wire fence; a lamp with no light.

Alan Jacobs > Auschwitz I, 1980.

Alan Jacobs > Guard tower in Auschwitz I. The barracks in the background are two story brick structures built with prisoner labor.

Alan Jacobs > One of the brick barracks in the women's camp at Birkenau. This photo can also be seen at the Cybrary of the Holocaust website , along with the following caption:

Barrack consisting of "sixty-two bays each with three 'roosts'. A roost was originally supposed to hold three prisoners, but Bischoff's [chief of the Auschwitz building office] numerology increased the capacity to four. To sleep, to sit, and keep his belongings, each prisoner was now provided with 'private' space that amounted to the surface dimensions of a large coffin or the volume of a shallow grave."* Originally built for Soviet POW'S, it was later to become part of the woman's camp.

"Charlotte Delbo in her book "Auschwitz and After", wrote: "A brick has come loose from the low wall separating our cell from the next where other larvae sleep, moan and dream under the blankets that cover them- these are shrouds covering them for they are dead, today or tomorrow what does it matter... We feel that we teeter on the edge of a dark pit, a bottomless void-it is the hole of the night where we struggle furiously, struggle against another nightmare, that of our real death."**

*Deborah Dwork & Robert Jan van Pelt. Auschwitz 1270 To The Present (New York: W.W. Norton & Company. p. 265-6.

** (Yale University Press 1995, p.56)

Alan Jacobs > Cell window in Block 11 basement. Little walls were built around these windows so that all the prisoners could see was the top of the building across the courtyard. The was done to prevent them seeing the executions by shooting against the "Black Wall" in this courtyard. Yes, they could hear them.

Auschwitz I lamp on the electrified barbed wire fence; a lamp with no light.

> Auschwitz I lamp on the electrified barbed wire fence; a lamp with no light.

Auschwitz I lamp on the electrified barbed wire fence; a lamp with no light.

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