Auschwitz - Birkenau

In one of the dormitories they showed the bags collected from those brought to Auschwitz. These bags and other supplies were kept in enormous warehouses the prisoners called Canada 1 and 2. They imagined Canada was a land of plenty, a place they would much rather be. They named these warehouses where there belongings were amassed after the country to represent that they had so much in them.

Wall where over 1000 prisoners were shot in the head for any one of many absurd accusations the SS guards came up with.Read more