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View of the walled entrance to the former gas chamber in the main camp of Auschwitz (Auschwitz I).

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    View of the walled entrance to the former gas chamber in the main camp of Auschwitz (Auschwitz I).
    View of the walled entrance to the former gas chamber in the main camp of Auschwitz (Auschwitz I). 

This gas chamber was in use for only a short time before being converted into an air raid shelter.  In the background is a building used by the Gestapo as a regional headquarters.

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    View of the walled entrance to the former gas chamber in the main camp of Auschwitz (Auschwitz I).

    This gas chamber was in use for only a short time before being converted into an air raid shelter. In the background is a building used by the Gestapo as a regional headquarters.
    Photographer
    Stanislaw Luczko
    Date
    April 1945
    Locale
    Auschwitz, [Upper Silesia] Poland
    Variant Locale
    Brzezinka
    Birkenau
    Auschwitz III
    Monowitz
    Auschwitz II
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Instytut Pamieci Narodowej

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    Instytut Pamieci Narodowej
    Copyright: Agency Agreement
    Source Record ID: 5148

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