Auschwitz

There were 3 Auschwitz locations: Auchwitz 1 - a slave labor camp, where he Nazis worked people to death; Auschwitz 2 - the killing camp; and Auschwitz 3, a chemical plant.

Auschwitz 1, the entry to which has the cynical, double-meaning "Work will make you free" slogan at the top of the entry gate (see below) is populated by a series of mundane bureaucratic brick buildings striking in their ordinariness. And in the extent to which it reveals the Nazi obsession with documenting all that they did. There are rows of photographs of individuals who were processed at Auschwitz 1, along with their names, date of birth when they entered and when they left. Or when they died rather.

 

There is a museum also at Aschwitz. The efficiency of the Nazi machine is chilling. They took eyeglasses, wooden legs, and even, most distressingly, hair from their victims to be used in some ways by the Germans. As I saw the piles and piles of eyeglasses, it was unbearable to think of the individuals to whom these eyeglasses belonged. And who were told that they were just going to internment camp of some sort. The sweet little dresses belonging to young girls were in a glass case. I have a few pictures of the displays from the museum below.

 

Little remains at Auschwitz 2. They maintain a barracks, where people were kept prior to being murdered. Three levels of wooden slats, were eight people lived on each level. The space would be sufficient for two people. The weakest and the sickest were on the bottom level and all excrement from the top levels flowed to the bottom level.

The remnants remain from the killing chambers. I show them below. But more disturbing are the little flecks of white in the soil, flecks of the ashes of people on the Nazis incinerated there.

 

 

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