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AUSCHWITZ:
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Documents 5, 6
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Details from the
1:2000 General Plan of KGL Birkenau. Bauleitung drawing 2216 of
20/3/43 [PMO neg. no. 205583]. The drawing conf irms the erection of
a hut of the stable type in the north yard of Krematorium II in
March 1943. We know little about this hut, except that after serving
as an undressing room for the first batch of Jews to be gassed in
this Krematorium, it was quickly dismantled - only a week later
according to the Sonderkommando witness Henryk Tauber. The first
menton of an access stairway through Leichenkeller 2 found in the
PMO archives, BW 30/40, page 68e, is dated 26/2/43 [Document
7a]. As soon as this entrance was operational, the undressing
hut was no longer required. |
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Document 5 |
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Document 6 |
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Document 7 |
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Key to Document
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Bâtiments permanents
en dur / Permanent brick-built buildings |
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Achevé / Completed
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construction / Under construction
projeté / Planned |
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Bâtiments provisoires
(baraques) / Temporary buildings (huts) |
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Document 7a
PMO file
BW 30/34 page 68e (facsimile) |
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giving access to “Keller 2” or the undressing room, signed by
SS Ustuf Kirschneck |
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Direct access to the
basement of Krematorium II; |
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Entrance to the undressing
room; |
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Stairs and chute for
delivering corpses to the basement. |
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
and operation
of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
© 1989, The
Beate Klarsfeld Foundation |
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