Historical pictures and documents
Ruins of gas chambersAuthor:
Ruins of gas chambers blew up by Germans running away from the Soviets in January 1945.
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Murdered before liberationAuthor:
When the Red Army liberated the camp on January 27, 1945, there were more than 200 bodies killed or died just before the liberation.
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Children after liberationAuthor:
From among 230 000 children deported to KL Auschwitz only 700 were liberated.
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Property of murdered peopleAuthor: Stanisław Mucha
Piles of personal belongings left after mass extermination.
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Property of murdered peopleAuthor: Stanisław Mucha
Piles of personal belongings left after mass extermination.
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Property of murdered peopleAuthor: Stanisław Mucha
Piles of personal belongings left after mass extermination.
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Property of murdered peopleAuthor: Stanisław Mucha
Piles of personal belongings left after mass extermination.
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Transportation to hospitalsAuthor:
Transportation of prisoners from KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau to hospitals.
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Birkenau after liberationAuthor:
Guards from the then State Museum in Oświęcim standing at the ruins of crematory and gas chamber II (1948).
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Former prisoners leaving field hospitalAuthor:
Former prisoners, patients of Soviet field hospital, leave the site of the camp after convalescence.
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View from a watchtowerAuthor:
A view from one of the watchtowers on the camp loundry and Blocks 28 and 27.
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Yard of Block 11Author:
The yard of Block 11 in Auschwitz I before reconstruction of the "Wall of Death".
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Entrance to the MuseumAuthor:
The entrance to the Museum from the side of Więźniów Oświęcimia street.
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Monument in BirkenauAuthor:
The monument remembering Jewish victims of KL Auschwitz at the end of the unloading ramp in Birkenau.
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Opening of the MuseumAuthor:
The ceremony of Museum opening. The then prime minister Józef Cyrankiewicz (former prisoner of KL Auschwitz) is giving a speech.
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Sector BIaAuthor: M. Kieta, May 1946
A fragment of Sector BIa in Birkenau. In the background—the main gate.
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Survived prisonerAuthor:
Most of the liberated prisoners were in critical condition. For the a Red Cross hospital was created in Auschwitz I.
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Wojana Taus from Jugoslavia and Katarina Beer from the Czech RepublicAuthor:
Wojana Taus from Jugoslavia and Katarina Beer from the Czech Republic
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