Anthony Cox

Photography

Auschwitz-Birkenau
Some photographs of Auschwitz-Birkenau from a trip in the winter of 2007.

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KL Auschwitz I: Main Gate.

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KL Auschwitz I: Guard tower and electric fence.

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KL Auschwitz I: Electric fence.

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KL Auschwitz I: Block 11.

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KL Auschwitz I: The infamous Blocks 10 and 11.

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KL Auschwitz I: Crematoria and Gas Chamber 1.

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KL Auschwitz I: Outer Perimeter.

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KL Auschwitz I: Rudolf Hoess's Gallows.

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KL Auschwitz I: Street view with camp blocks.

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KL Auschwitz I: The Death Wall.

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KL Auschwitz I: View as entering camp across electric fence.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau, Gate of Death.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: Those chosen for immediate destruction would join the road on the left which led to the crematoria.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: The selection area. It was at this point that Nazi SS doctors would make an assessment about the status of new arrivals.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: View to the sorting area.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: The railway spur near the Judenrampe.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: Kitchens in Area BIb.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: A look down the end of the railway line from near the Crematoria.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: The main road to the crematoria and gas chambers.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: The steps into the Gas Chamber's changing room.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: This is the changing room, where arrivals would be given a bar of soap and a towel before going into the gas chamber for a "shower".

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: This is the collapsed gas chamber, which was situated underground.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: Here is the bombed out shell of the crematoria. The Germans destroyed it with explosives before leaving.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: A look down the railway line towards the Gate of Death.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: A look back at the main entrance.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: A gateway into sections BIa (left) and Bib (right).

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: Area BIa. This was mainly used for Jewish and non-Jewish women.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: The scale hits you on arrival.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: I went in winter, with relatively few present, and a deep cold.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: Memorial to those who died at Auschwitz. It is written in the languages of all those who died, the English version being slightly separated.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: A memorial next to a pit of ashes from the crematoria.

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KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau: Memorial to those who died at Auschwitz.