Unloading Area (Rampe)

Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp. Transport train unloading area. Prisoners were unloaded here and sorted into those who would be murdered immediately and those who would be sent to the labour camp. The railway spur to Birkenau was built in 1944. From 1941 to 1944 prisoners were unloaded at a siding at the Oświęcim yard and marched to the camp. Auschwitz Birkenau: German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945) UNESCO World Heritage site, inscribed in 1979. DSC_0798

Oświęcim - Auschwitz

September 18th 2018
Today was our visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp. A somber day, but a must. The name Auschwitz itself conjures up the Holocaust and its horrific images. Oświęcim is about an hour and a half drive from Krakow. It is and was a railway center, with connections east to Krakow, west to Wrocław (once Breslau) and Berlin and south to Vienna. Thus the town was selected as a central place to whi ... read more

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