View of the 'ramp' where prisoners were unloaded from the iconic Guard Tower at Birkenau, Auschwitz II, Oswiecim, Poland.
View of the nortorious 'Ramp', from the guard tower, where the selection took place. New arrivals were separated into groups of men and boys and women and children. Fit young men were used as slaves in the camp. The town of Oswiecim, forty miles west of Krakow, Poland was the site of the largest Nazi concentration camp in Poland. Established on two sites Auschwitz 1 was largely used as a slave labour camp for political prisoners and other opponents of the Nazi entrance to the camp bears the notorious motto, Arbeit Macht Frei, 'Work Makes You Free'. Birkenau; Auschwitz 2, was an extermination camp where transported in cattle trucks from all over Europe million prisoners were murdered by the Nazis in the gas chambers. By 1942 the holocaust was at its height when up to 20,000 people were killed each day and their corpses incinerated in gas chambers or buried in mass graves.
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Location: Auschwitz II, Birkenau, Oswiecim, near Krakow, Poland. Europe.
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