Door latch to Birkenau barrack in the quarantine camp, BIIa, Birkenau. For view of interior go to: http://www.remember.org/camps/birkenau/bir-mens-barrack-01.html For interactive map of Birkenau go to http://www.remember.org/camps/birkenau/index.html
View of the ramp at Birkenau from the back. On each side of these tracks were crematoria and gas chambers, (KII, KIII) For views of them go to interactive map of Birkenau http://www.remember.org/camps/birkenau/index.html
I arrived in Poland in June 1979 just a week after Pope John Paul II had conducted a mass at Birkenau. There were many places where people left flowers, many on the wires. The flower is as I found it.
