This post will contain little text. Instead, it has drawings by those who lived through the Holocaust.
Above is “Arrival into the Auschwitz Camp.” Just behind the backs of the prisoners and to their left is the guard tower at the main entrance to the camp. (Illustration by Władysław Siwek)
Next we see the entrance to the Krankenbau, or camp hospital, courtyard. We see prisoners who have come to the hospital seeking, if nothing else, a brief respite from the killing work. Those too ill to work were killed by phenol injection to the heart, or sent to the gas. Here prisoners are whipped onto a truck for transport to the gas chamber. (Illustration by Jerzy Potrzebowski)
The above drawing shows a kapo (prisoner official) in charge of the block, a Blockeltester, kicking and beating prisoners into bed, if one can call it that. They had endured another day of slave labour with insufficient food rations. (Illustration by Jerzy Potrzebowski)
“Before Selection,” by Halina Olomucka
Loading selected prisoners for the gas chambers, by Jan Komski
sources
https://www.auschwitz.org/en/gallery/art-of-camp-and-postcamp-period/
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