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| | Concentration camp of Birkenau - Introduction |
 | | It is preserved more or less in the state it was found at liberation in January 1945. | | | The Polish government has maintained the site as a memorial for all those who perished there during World War II. | | | The search for this kind of meaning has, as paradoxical as it may sound, enriched our lives. |
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http://remember.org/camps/birkenau/bir-introduction.html
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| | Auschwitz II concentration camp at Birkenau |
| | This was my first introduction to what it was like for the prisoners at Birkenau. | | | The name Mexico was given to this section of the camp because some of the prisoners would huddle with a blanket wrapped around themselves, which reminded one of the prisoners of the native people in Mexico. | | | Another survivor who lived there as a child said that she never saw her father the whole time she was in the camp, although he was also a prisoner there. |
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http://www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/Birkenau/Birkenau01.html
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| | Auschwitz-Birkenau |
| | Himmler visited Auschwitz in March 1941 and commanded its enlargement to hold 30,000 prisoners. | | | The first "bunker", with two sealed rooms, operated from January 1942 to the end of that year. | | | The sign on the door say "Lebensgefhar" - danger of death |
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http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/auschbirk.html
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| | HOLOCAUST FAQ: Auschwitz-Birkenau: Layman's Guide (1/2) |
| | The published manuscripts and documents relate to the specific process of extermination at Birkenau, and provide detailed descriptions of the crematoria and gas chambers.) The scientifically planned crematoria should have been able to handle the total project, but they could not. | | | After that experiment, the firm J. Topf and Sons received a contract to build much larger, permanent gas chambers connected with very large crematoria in Auschwitz-Birkenau, where the mass exterminations were mainly carried out. | | | Altogether four such installations -- II, III, IV, and V -- were built in Birkenau." (Encyclopedia, Vol. |
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http://www.faqs.org/faqs/holocaust/auschwitz/part01
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| | Auschwitz II - Birkenau |
| | More space was needed, and the S.S. realized that Auschwitz I could not be expanded to accomodate the mass influx of Jews and other prisoners from all over Europe. | | | This became the Auschwitz II-Birkenau Sub-camp, the primary site of technological, industrial mass-murder. | | | At this time, in 1942, plans were made for the construction of another site that could accomodate up to 200,000 people at nearby Brzezinka, or Birkenau, just two miles away. |
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http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/holocaust/birkenau.html
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| | Holocaust Survivors: Encyclopedia - "Auschwitz" |
| | The "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Leads to Freedom) sign was above the entrance to Auschwitz I. It was the site of the infamous Block 11, the punishment block, and the site where the depraved "Medical experiments" were carried out. | | | It is estimated that 1,600,000 people were murdered at Birkenau, over 90 percent of them Jews. | | | The Auschwitz complex consisted of Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II (also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau or Birkenau), Auschwitz III (Monowitz) and forty-five sub-camps. |
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http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/cgi-bin/data.show.pl?di=record&da=encyclopedia&sf=entry_name&sv=Auschwitz
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| | Auschwitz pictures, photos album camp |
| | At the end of the war, in an effort | | | their deaths in the Birkenau gas chambers immediately after arrival. | | | The majority of the Jewish men, women and children deported to Auschwitz were sent to |
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http://www.israel-catalog.com/seo/Holocaust/Auschwitz-Pictures.html
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| | Birkenau Photographs by Alan Jacobs - London Calling |
| | These photographs were taken by Alan Jacobs during his five trips to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the years 1979-1981. | | | Birkenau Photographs by Alan Jacobs - London Calling |
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http://www.bravenewweb.com/Birkenau79/index.html
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| | Virtual Reality Movies: Birkenau |
| | This 180-degree movie shows an overview of the camp from a guard tower atop the "Death Gate" through which the trains entered the camp. | | | The ruins of Crematorium V. Birkenau International Monument to the Victims of Facism | | | Birkenau was a sub-camp of Auschwitz located just two miles away. |
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http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/VR/BIRKENAU.htm
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| | Encyclopedia article on Birkenau [EncycloZine] |
| | Products related to Birkenau : books, DVD, electronics, garden, kitchen, magazines, music, photo, posters, software, tools, toys, VHS, videogames | | | Visit Curious-Minds.co.UK for educational games and toys, and science kits. | | | the municipality Birkenau in Hesse, see Birkenau, Hesse |
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http://encyclozine.com/Birkenau
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