We made the necessary visit to this site in order to remember the atrocities and honor the victims so neither are forgotten. We booked a comprehensive tour of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau complex, which included transportation, admission, and a certified guide. This haunting site stands as the most well-known and deadliest concentration camp of the Nazi regime’s final solution. These camps provided their Nazi overseers the means to murder an estimated 1.1 million people between 1940 and 1945.
Auschwitz
This was a former Polish military barracks that was turned into a prisoner of war camp and then a concentration camp.
Birkenau
Auschwitz II-Birkenau was the extermination camp. Of the people that arrived through these gates, the majority were immediately sent to the gas chambers. The entire Auschwitz-Birkenau site is registered with UNESCO World Heritage as evidence of this inhumane, cruel and methodical effort to deny human dignity to groups considered inferior, leading to their systematic murder.
In contrast to Auschwitz I and its brick barracks, Birkenau’s barracks were constructed of wood, mainly using inmates as salve labor. The majority of the barracks are gone with only the brick chimneys left as a reminder of their location and abundance.
