Birkenau Barracks

Auschwitz-Birkenau (part of the barrack city). This camp was in operation from mid-1940 to January 1945. About 4,500,000 people of 20 nationalities, including 2,000,000 Jews from all the countries of occupied Europe, were exterminated here.
Photo credit: Meczenstwo Walka, Zaglada Aydów w Polsce 1939-1945. Poland. No. 282.

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
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