Birkenau

Birkenau

	Group walk on train tracks from Auschwitz to Birkenau. These were actual train tracks prisoners walked from one camp to another.
	Group walk on train tracks from Auschwitz to Birkenau. These were actual train tracks prisoners walked from one camp to another.
	Train track area where the cattle cars filled with people switched to the Birkenau track.
	Close up of train track
	Road to Birkenau
	Group walk
	Group walk


	At Birkenau gate
	Looking through gate



	Right side of Birchenau where the men were located

	Left side of Birkenau where the women were located
	Inside the women's barracks, the wood platforms went to the floor. No one wanted to be "stuck" there, although many had not choice, because the rats would come at night.
	The men were kept in buildings that used to be horse barns.
	The wooden platforms that were their beds.
	The only source of heat in the builiding
	Guard tower
	Train track inside Birkenau. As part of the "Walk For Life" that was taking place as part of the Jubile, messages were left all over the camp on little wooden markers.
	Ruins of crematory
	Stairs leading down into crematory where the prisoners disrobed and were then gassed.
	A pit, outside one of the gas chambers, where the ashes from the ovens were thrown.
	Silverware used by prisoners
	Memorial to prisoners
	Group during service
	Rabbi Edelheit and Father O'Connell leading service
	Lighting Yizskor candles
	Rabbi Edelheit and Father O'Connell at gate entrance