Auschwitz II - Birkenau
Beginning around May 1944, trains that were 40 to 50 cars long would carry thousands of Jews through this gate to be murdered in one of the four gas chambers at Birkenau. The prisoners came to know this passageway as the "Gate of Death". The train tracks seen here were laid specifically for entrance into the concentration camp, and the tracks ended only a few yards away from two of the gas chambers.