Guard Tower

 

Guard Tower

 

Rail Siding

 

Main Gate

 

Looking from main square towards crematorium and memorials

 

Maintenance building; this room is where arriving prisoners surrendered all of their personal belongings

 

Whipping table with bull whip. Prisoners were strapped chest down and expected to count their lashings out loud

 

Memorial from the 10th anniversary of the liberation

 

Another memorial, showing the various colored patches prisoners wore on their uniforms

 

Memorial

 

Looking down main camp road, lined with poplar trees

 

Lavatory in rebuilt barracks

 

Bunkroom in barracks

 

Individual bunk in barracks

 

Open area where 17 rows of barracks once stood

 

Jewish Memorial

 

Trench and fence

 

Perimeter fence

 

Perimeter fence looking towards watchtower

 

Perimeter fence looking towards watchtower

 

Crematorium from entry

 

Crematorium II

 

Execution area, with bullet marks still visible in concrete wall

 

Ash grave

 

Ash grave

 

Crematorium wall showing two chutes for dropping poison gas into death chamber

 

Chute for dropping Zyklon B pellets into gas chamber

 

Entry room

 

Disrobing room

 

Door to gas chamber

 

Door to gas chamber

 

Gas chamber, showing chutes

 

Gas chamber

 

Gas chamber

 

Death room, where bodies were placed after removing from gas chamber

 

Ovens

 

Ovens

 

Ovens

 

Rafters over ovens where hangings were performed

 

Death room II, where bodies were placed for those who died in main camp area

 

Original ovens in Crematorium I

 

Crematorium I

 

German school students on a tour

 

Disinfecting chamber for clothing. Zyklon B was also used here

 

Disinfecting chambers

 

Crematorium II

 

Monument

 

Gates to Crematorium. Note the "no smoking" sign...

 

Gates from Crematorium into main camp

 

Barracks area

 

Perimeter wall

 

Perimeter wall. Note the barbed wire on the ground in front of the fence

 

Perimeter trench and fence

 

Clear area and watchtower

 

Barracks footprint

 

Barracks 1, reconstructed

 

Main square of camp, looking towards service buildings

 

Camp entrance from main square

 

Memorial - Barbed wire morphed into human forms

 

Main gate - Arbeit Macht Frei

 

Main gate - Arbeit Macht Frei

 

Main gate - Arbeit Macht Frei

 

Watchtower from outside main gate

 

 

Guard position with gun slots

 

Bus station looking towards entrance to memorial. New visitor center under construction to left of bus station