Birkenau

Das Schild hat eine Legende in Polnisch, Englisch und Hebräisch.
Im Plan sind Wachtürme einzeichnet.
Gebäude, die noch erhalten sind, sind räumlich gezeichnet.
Gebäude, die nur teilweise erhalten sind, sind als Umrisse darstellt.
Nicht erhaltene Gebäude sind als gestrichelte Umrisse dargestellt.

• Legende:
• A — Main gate and guardhouse – the ‘Gate of Death’
• C — Railway sliding and unloading area (‘ramp’) where transports of departees arrived
• D1 — Site of first temporary Gas Chamber (Bunker 1)
• D2 — Site of second temporary Gas Chamber (Bunker 2)
• EII — Ruins of Gas Chambers and Crematorium II
• EIII — Ruins of Gas Chambers and Crematorium III
• EIV — Ruins of Gas Chambers and Crematorium IV
• EV — Ruins of Gas Chambers and Crematorium V
• F — Sites where corpses of the people murdered were burned in the open air
• G — Fields used as dumping-grounds for ashes of the people murdered
• H — Pond with ashes of the people murdered
• I — Mass grave of Soviet prisoners of war
• J — Site of a revolt by Jewish prisoners from the Sonderkommando
• K — Site of a revolt and mass escape by Polish prisoners from the penal unit (Strafkompanie)
• BI — Sector I of the Birkenau camp
• BIa — Camp for women (Jews and non-Jews) from different countries
• BIb — Initially a camp for men (Jews and non-Jews) from different countries; from 1943, a camp for woman
• BII — Sector II of the Birkenau camp
• BIIa — Quarantine area for men (Jews and non-Jews)
• BIIb — Family camp for Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto
• BIIc — Transit camp< for Jewesses, mainly from Hungary/li>
• BIId — Camp for men (Jews and non-Jews) from different countries
• BIIe — Family camp for Gypsies
• BIIf — Holding area for sick men prisoners (‘Infirmary’)
• BIIg — Warehouses for stroring property plundered from people deported to Auschwitz (‘Canada II’)
• BIII — Sector III of the Birkenau camp ‘Mexico’ (an extension of the camp that was never finished)
• L — Showers (Zentralsauna)
• M — Sewage plant
• N — Main drainage ditch ‘the king’s ditch’ (Königsgraben)
• O — SS guardrooms (Blockführerstuben)
• P — International Monument to the Victims of Auschwitz
• R — Memorial to Gypsies murdered in Auschwitz
• S — Memorial to French citizens murdered in Auschwitz