Saturday 21 January 2012

Auschwitz 1: Block 11




Block 11, the Auschwitz prison and where the first gassings occurred.
Next to Block 10, with the enclosed yard, including the Wall of Death



Room where trials were held





Room where corpses were found after liberation





Prisoner bunks


"The washroom where women stripped before execution
then they were led in twos to yard and shot at the death wall"




Cartoon of the Wall of Death


Cartoon of nubile women


Cartoon of prisoners pulling cart full of corpses and the
gas chamber/crematory chimney working overtime


Cartoon of German fiendishness


Map of the basement of Block 11


Photo of part of the basement, steps must lead into
the enclosed prisoner yard between Block 10 & 11 


Sign about the first gassing at Auschwitz


Peep hole on cell door


Cell doors


Sign about the standing cells


The standing cells


Cell where Saint Kolbe died 


Corridor in the centre of the basement, the doorways on the sides lead
to parallel, but shorter corridors with doors to the individual cells


Bench for whipping prisoners


Cartoon of inspection











Cartoons of prisoners playing music





Guide to armbands


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