Auschwitz II Birkenau Road To Gas Chamber

This is a road where those selected for immediate death walked on their way to the gas chambers IV and V and the crematoria. This road divided the transit camp for Jewish women from Hungary (B II c) and the men’s camp (B II d). On average roughly three out of four newly arrived people were selected for immediate death in the Birkenau gas chambers. (Picture taken by Steven Mercatante on September 5, 2014).