Dimas Sequeira's photos with the keyword: campo_concentração_extermínio

With lots of trees behind, very convenient to hide all the horrors that happened inside the fence from the sight of whoever might be outside.

In ruins, as they were destroyed with dynamite in January 1945, when the Russian Army seized the camp.

Beyond this gate stood the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than one million prisoners were killed.

Beside the railway terminal used to carry prisoners to Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Poor ventilation, no light, no water, no food, no toilets. That's how prisoners were forced to travel to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.

This is the zone where prisoners should step off the wagons and where it was arbitrarily decided which would go to the barracks, for further forced labour, and which would go straight to the gas chambers.

After days of journey, standing in crammed locked wagons, deprived of light, food and water, prisoners were delivered beyond that gate, in Auschwitz-Birkenau - a journey with no return, for the great majority.

Located at 3 km of Auschwitz I, this was the largest concentration and extermination camp of the Nazis and was busy as such between 1942 and 1945. A railway line crossed the entrance gate to bring loads of prisoners - more than a million of these died there from mass extermination, individual executions, disease, hypothermia, starvation or cruel experiments. This site became UNESCO heritage in 1979, along with Auschwitz I.

Where the corpses of Auschwitz prisoners killed in the gas chambers were turned into ashes.

Where hundreds of thousand Auschwitz prisoners were exterminated between 1941 and 1945.

The final punishment for specific transgressions of Auschwitz prisoners.

They made Auschwitz prisoners feel trapped and confined in restricted areas.

Right before high-voltage fence and a watchtower of Auschwitz concentration camp.

Seen inside a block for prisoners used as forced labour.

This block was for prisoners used as forced labour in Auschwitz.

Watchtower between high-voltage fence and the outer wall of Auschwitz I.

Former belongings of Auschwitz prisoners, victims of the extermination project.

All the victims left their clothes and shoes behind, before entering the gas chambers of Auschwitz I. Several rooms display large quantities of shoes, clothes, personal objects, travel bags, children's toys and amputees' prosthesis: all these things were confiscated.