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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.

Alan Jacobs > Into this pond were dumped the ashes of many tens of thousands of people, mostly Jews, who were gassed at Krematorium IV, just behind and to the left. The "little wood" can be seen behind the pond. In those days, a fence of interwoven branches blocked the waiting victims' view of what lay ahead. photo 1979
For interactive map of Birkenau go to http://www.remember.org/camps/birkenau/index.html

Alan Jacobs > Birkenau 1979. This tree would fall from time to time and was periodically raised by then Birkenau caretaker Urbaniak. It was in "Kanada", the place where all the possessions of those taken off the trains were stored in many barrack/warehouses for shipping to Germany. They were destroyed in advance of Russian liberation of the camp. It was nicknamed thus because it was a place of abundence. See U.S Memorial Museum photo archive: Go to http://www.ushmm.org photo archive and search for Kanada/Birkenau. These are actual photos taken by the SS.

Alan Jacobs > Polish Agency Interpress Interpreter/translator Krystyna Hnatowicz in Auschwitz Museum storeroom. She and Alan Jacobs have been married for 26 years. "Krysia" Jacobs is responsible for much of the technical work presented on the Internet:

A Virtual Tour of Auschwiz and Birkenau: http://www.remember.org/auschwitz/
Then and Now: http://remember.org/then-and-now/
Concentration Camps: http://www.remember.org/camps/

Alan Jacobs > The only remaining intact gas chamber and crematorium: Krematorium I, Auschwitz. photo 1979

Alan Jacobs > The Krankenbau or camp hospital courtyard. Prisoners came to the hospital seeking, if nothing else, a brief respite from the killing work. Those too ill to work were killed by phenol injection to the heart, or sent to the gas. For a photo and survivor art showing these prisoners being whipped onto a truck for transport to the gas chamber, see http://remember.org/then-and-now/tn05.html edit

Alan Jacobs > Urbaniak, the Birkenau caretaker, 1979.

Alan Jacobs > RR track switch handle at entrance to unloading ramp at Birkenau. photo 1979

The only remaining intact gas chamber and crematorium: Krematorium I, Auschwitz. photo 1979

> The only remaining intact gas chamber and crematorium: Krematorium I, Auschwitz. photo 1979

The only remaining intact gas chamber and crematorium: Krematorium I, Auschwitz. photo 1979

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