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The Auschwitz Memorial Museum in Oświęcim is infamous. An exceptional site that is remembered long afterwards.
During the war, there were three main camps, Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Auschwitz III-Monowitz, and more than 40 secondary camps. Today, the two main camps form the memorial museum, established by the Polish government in 1947
.Auschwitz I. This is the oldest camp. It was here, in Block 11, that the Nazis tested the Zyklon B that was later used in the gas chambers. Preserved almost intact in the state in which the Nazis left it when they evacuated it, it contains the main part of the exhibition, the former "blocks" that made up the camp. It is recommended to precede the visit with the screening of the documentary (15 minutes, 4 PLN), filmed by Red Army soldiers during the liberation of the camp in 1945. The tour itself begins with the door surmounted by the famous inscription Arbeit macht frei
(Work makes you free), the original of which was stolen at the end of 2009.at the end of the alley, stands the block of medical experiments of sterilization, and just after the block of Death (No. 11). It was the camp prison, reserved for recalcitrant prisoners who were subjected to torture. Block No. 21, assigned to France and Belgium, features an exhibit dedicated to the 76,000 French Jews. To the left of Block 1 is the only gas chamber in Auschwitz, which was converted into an anti-aircraft bunker in 1943.
Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
This gigantic camp, largely destroyed by the Nazis before their escape, was the real death factory. As you arrive, you can see the sinister façade of the guard building that marks the entrance to the camp. It is a building topped by a tower, all in length, in the middle the door of Death, let in the trains leading directly to the platform where the kapos selected the Jewish deportees. Climb to the top of the tower for an overview of the camp. Most of the barracks have been destroyed, but the chimneys, which are still high, bear witness to their location. Some barracks can be visited.Birkenau, an extermination camp, differs from Auschwitz in that here the prisoners were purely exterminated. At the bottom of the camp, the ruins of the crematoria where thousands of people were killed every day. Nearby is a monument: "May this place where the Nazis murdered one and a half million men, women and children, mostly Jews from various European countries, be forever a cry of despair and a warning to humanity
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