Dimas Sequeira's photos with the keyword: 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.