2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) People visit a surviving gas chamber and crematorium at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim ...

In a futile attempt to cover up the Nazis war crimes before abandoning Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Germans blew up Crematorium 3. Only Crematorium 1 remains intact. The ovens were hard. Mostly ...

Conditions at Birkenau are harsh in January and organisers ... "I was ordered to go to the left, which meant the crematorium, whereas my twin was sent to the right. That was only because the ...

Since the autumn of 1941, Höss and his colleagues had been experimenting with the use of Zyklon B to kill Soviet POWs and the sick in the camp's crematorium ... railhead in Birkenau, two miles ...