Auschwitz I concentration camp
Oświęcim, Poland |
Crematorium I: before the war this building was a munition bunker. From August 15, 1940 to July 1943 the SS used it as a crematorium. In the autumn of 1941, the largest room, which had been designed by the camp authorities as a morgue, was adapted for use as an improvised gas chamber, the first of its kind in Auschwitz.
After the establishment of Auschwitz II-Birkenau of two more improvised gas chambers in 1942 for the mass murder of the Jews, the gassings here were gradually stopped, the burning of corpses here was also stopped (July 1943).
Auschwitz I concentration camp
Oświęcim, Poland |
Crematorium I: before the war this building was a munition bunker. From August 15, 1940 to July 1943 the SS used it as a crematorium. In the autumn of 1941, the largest room, which had been designed by the camp authorities as a morgue, was adapted for use as an improvised gas chamber, the first of its kind in Auschwitz.
After the establishment of Auschwitz II-Birkenau of two more improvised gas chambers in 1942 for the mass murder of the Jews, the gassings here were gradually stopped, the burning of corpses here was also stopped (July 1943).