Auschwitz-Birkenau

May 21st, 2019

Part of trip to: Central & Eastern Europe.

Visit to the: Oskar Schindler’s Enamel Factory.

Back to: The Pisarro Family Home Page.

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   DSI_0445 — “Work sets you Free.”
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   DSI_0545 — Our tourguide of the concentration camps
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   DSI_0592 — Auschwitz was formally an army barracks so it was well constructed.
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   DSI_0541 — The infamous Block 10 was used to interrogate and torture polical prisoners.
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    DSI_0535 — In the early days, the Nazis carefully documented each prisoner and when they were executed.
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    DSI_0581 — The single gas chamber of Auschwitz.
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    DSI_0586 — The reconstructed crematorium.
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    DSI_0574 — Commandant Rudolf Höss, was executed facing the camp.
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    DSI_0593 — Birkenau was where most of the exterminations took place.
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    DSI_0611 — One of the railroad cars, used to bring in prisoners.
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    DSI_0695 — The kitchens.
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    DSI_0696 — The same wagons were used for bringing in food, as well as bringing out human waste and bodies.
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    DSI_0637 — A memorial to those executed.
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    DSI_0634 — The same message was on each plaque in different languages.
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    DSI_0669 — The Germans blew up the gas chambers at Birkenau, trying to hide the evidence.
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    DSI_0685 — The wooden barracks were dismantled or burned.
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    DSI_0735 — Drawings by children eventually executed.
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