Remains of Gas Chamer 3 Auschwitz II (Birkenau)

During 1942, the construction of four new-and larger-gas chambers with associated changing rooms and crematoria began in Auschwitz-Birkenau. These were the two largest (2 and 3) and two smaller ones (4, and 5). When commissioned in March 1943, the crematorium of this gas chamber 3 had a capacity of 1440 bodies per day. With this number, it is easy to draw the conclusion that within this room, several hundred thousand people were killed under deceptive-and horrific-circumstances.

In late 1944, the SS tried to erase the evidence of their crimes as much as possible and gas chambers II and III, together with their crematoria, were partially dismantled and blown up shortly before the liberation of the camp in January 1945.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Koos Winkelman
• https://www.auschwitz.org/en/history/auschwitz-and-shoah/gas-chambers/