Sauna Building Auschwitz II (Birkenau)

Known as the Sauna, this building in Auschwitz-Birkenau was actually a bathhouse and was commissioned at the end of 1943. It served to register and disinfect newly arrived prisoners selected to work.

Here, the newly arrived prisoners were completely shaved bald and provided with camp clothes. From then on, they were relegated to just a number that was also tattooed on their arm.

There is a permanent exhibition in the building that can be visited. On display here are, among other things, still steam rooms in which the clothes were deloused, and photographs taken away from the victims.

For current visiting hours, please visit the website of the museum.

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Source

• Text: Traces of War
• Photos: Koos Winkelman