Auschwitz I Entrance
Auschwitz I concentration camp. Entrance gate and Block 24 (the "Dollhouse"). The Auschwitz I camp began in June 1940 with the use of a former Polish army barracks. Prisoners built additions to the existing barracks buildings and new brick cellblocks.
The building immediately at the entrance is Camp Block 24, known as the "Dollhouse". It was used as the camp brothel. Guards and selected non-Jewish trustees were allowed to visit it.
The greatest camp population was 18,000 prisoners in 1944. One must think of this number of people held in a relatively small space of 24 adjacent cellblocks.
Auschwitz Birkenau: German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945) UNESCO World Heritage site, inscribed in 1979.DSC_0777p1
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