아우슈비츠 수용소 (Auschwitz concentration camp)

아우슈비츠 수용소 (Auschwitz concentration camp).

폴란드(Poland)

 

 

 

 

 

The camp orchestra had to assemble here to play marches while the prisoners filed past. This was to help prisoners' keep in step & make it easier to count them as they went to & from work.

 

SS photograph, 1941

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 When the SS took over the prewar Polish garrison in 1940 they used the 20 mostly one- storey buildings for the prisoners. As the number of inmates increased, the SS decided to enlarge the camp. In spring 1941 construction began of 8 new buildings (now Blocks 4-7, 15-17 & 18) & a second storey for 14 others. All the work was done by prisoners rather than by construction machinery. Supervised by the SS & prisoner overseers (Kapos) who beat them at the slightest opportunity, they dug foundations, carried bricks & bags of cements, & pushed wheelbarrows full of gravel & sand, Many died in consequence.

 

Painting "digging the Foundations for Block 15" done in 1948 by a Polish Auschwitz survival, Wladysllaw Siwek.

 

 

 

 

 From 26 March 1942 until mid-August of that year, Blocks 1-10 were used as a camp for women prisoners. It was separated from the men's camp by a high wall. About 17,000 women, Jewish & non-Jewish, who had been deported from Germany & throughout German-occupied Europe were housed here.

During these four months, a few thousand women were sent to the gas chambers or died as a result of the conditions in the camp-starvation, rampant epidemics, lack of sanitary facilities, & slave labour. Those who were still alive in August 1942 were transferred to the new main women's camp in Sector BI of Auschwitz II - Birkenau.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 One of the torments of lifein the concentration camp was the daily roll-call. The entire prison population of thousands of prisoners had to stand to attention during the roll-calls held on the central square at this location. Later, when new buildings were constructed over of the original roll-call area, the prisoners were lined up on the camp streets in front of the blocks. The roll-calls often lasted several hours, & sometimes even a dozen hours or longer.

 

Painting "Roll-call in 1941" done in 1972 by a Polish Auschwitz survival,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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