Auschwitz was the largest of the Nazi concentration camps. It was a place of forced labor and mass murder. No collection of pictures can show the horrors that occurred within Auschwitz, but perhaps this collection of historical pictures of Auschwitz will at least tell part of the story.
Camp Views
Picture from the Philip Vock Collection, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
- "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate
- Entrance to gas chamber in Auschwitz I
- Door of gas chamber
- Execution wall
- Electrified, barbed wire fence and barracks
- Sign on fence that reads "danger"
- A fence around the barracks
- Lane separating the first and the second row of barracks
- Interior of a barrack
- Men's Camp in Birkenau
- Kitchen barracks
- Aerial reconnaissance showing Auschwitz I
- Aerial reconnaissance showing Auschwitz II
Forced Labor
Picture courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
At Liberation
Picture courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
- Corpses of women on the floor of Block 11
- Corpses in Block 11
- Funeral after liberation
- Prisoners greeting liberators
- Jewish children behind barbed wire
- Inmates at the gate
- Liberated inmates behind the barbed wire fence
- Former women prisoners on the wooden bunks that served as beds
- Ruins of crematorium #2
Hair, Shoes, Clothes
Picture from the National Archives, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives.
Trzebinia (A Sub-Camp of Auschwitz)
(Picture courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives)
