In this post we are going to tell you a series of information that you should know if you are going to visit Cracovia and especially if you are going through the field of Auschwitz concentration camp.
Where was the gas chamber and the crematoria?
Surrounded by an embankment, there is a short building, situated outside the concentration camp fence itself. Next to it is a large brick fireplace. Inside there are a few rooms. in the most One of the large ones, which was a gas chamber, shows openings made in the ceiling. In the next room there are two crematorium ovens and rail carts to transport the corpses, the prisoners were in charge of moving the corpses.
The big morgue in the concentration camp
Before the war, this building was home to an Polish army ammunition store. In the summer of 1940, after the creation of the concentration camp by the Germans, the largest place was It was intended to be a great morgue, where the bodies of murdered prisoners were deposited. And in the adjoining room, crematorium ovens were installed, in which they could incinerate up to 340 corpses per day.
What role did the SS play in the concentration camps?
From 1941 until early December 1942, the mortuary served as a gas chamber. If you see the square before entering the building, it was used as a locker room for the prisoners, where they supposedly took off their clothes for a shower, to then enter the Gas chamber. Using Zyklon B gas, the SS soldiers murdered thousands of Jews, as well as numerous groups of Soviet prisoners of war and other nationalities.
The building has been largely preserved in its original state. After the gas chambers of the crematoria of the another concentration camp called Birkenau were put into operation in 1944, the ovens and chimney were dismantled, as well as the openings through which the Zyklon gas was thrown B were covered.
Since 1944, the building served as an air-raid shelter for SS troops and a hospital located next door.
What are concentration camps after World War II worldwide?
After the war, they decided to rebuild with original material that had been preserved, they rebuilt two of the three ovens and the chimney of the crematorium, and also reproduced some openings on the roof of the gas chamber.
Visiting this place was to understand humanity even more and they were sad days and weeks, without a doubt we visited a factory to kill people.
It is a must visit if you travel to Krakow, since everyone should see this place and feel it so that nothing similar happens again.
