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Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-202) and index. 204 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Barracks from Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp established by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland from October 1941-January 18, 1945. Barracks were primitive wooden structures with large wooden shelves for bunkbeds. There were 36 bunks per barrack; 5 to 6 prisoners were packed on a shelf to fit over 500 prisoners per barracks. Inmates wore the same ragged clothes for work and sleep. The barracks ...

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Medical personnel lists, hospital books of barracks (No. 20, 21, 28), prisoner transfer list, records related to medical examinations of Roma and Sinti, a list of Russian prisoners of war who died in Auschwitz, and various other records related to medical procedures for inmates (prescriptions, temperature diagrams, reports of the removal of gold teeth, etc.).

White, plaster of Paris, 1:15 sculptural model of Crematorium II and a gas chamber at Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz II) killing center, commissioned by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and created between 1989 and 1992 by Mieczyslaw Stobierski. “Model crematorium II – Birkenau” illustrates the entire process that killed 1.1 million people at the Auschwitz camp complex. While the model is ...