auschwitz birkenau nazi death camp poland barbed wire prison bleak genocide war crime holocaust german second world war WW2 eastern europe watchtower guard
auschwitz birkenau nazi death camp poland prison bleak genocide war crime holocaust german second world war WW2 eastern europe rail railway points line
auschwitz birkenau nazi death camp poland tree trees steps prison bleak genocide war crime holocaust german second world war WW2 eastern europe memorial
auschwitz birkenau nazi death camp poland prison bleak genocide war crime holocaust german second world war WW2 eastern europe rail railway points unloading ramp switch
auschwitz krakow poland german death camp nazi national socialism antisemitism holocaust genocide mass murder eastern europe jewish bleak winter wintry watchtower barbed wire
Germany; Nazi; Atrocity; Holocaust; Racism; Genocide; World War II; Second World War; Twentieth century; 20th century
Description
Arrival of a train containing Jews deported to Auschwitz death camp in Poland. Auschwitz-Birkenau (1940-1945) was the largest of the German Concentration and Extermination camps. 1.1 million people, 90 per cent of them Jews are thought to have died there most of them in the gas chambers.