Birkenau

After we visited Auschwitz, we went to Birkenau (also known as Auschwitz II--Birkenau), which is right down the road. It is 20 times larger than Auschwitz.

Monowitz Auschwitz III was a third concentration camp, and held 12,000 prisoners.

Birkenau opened in March of 1942 and was classified as an extermination camp. About 90% of the victims of the Auschwitz Concentration Camps died at Birkenau.

One side of the area housed men, and the other side, across from the railroad tracks, housed women.

Here are remains of the gas chambers. There were four gas chambers in total, but they all burned down and deteriorated.

This is the building where men slept.

I found it so ironic and sad that there were dandelions growing on these fields.