Human hair from the victims of the german nazi fascist criminal genocide.
Glasses auschwitz hair room.
From what the guide told us the hair was usually shaved off after they had been gassed most women and chil.
Inmates could steal something small that could be later used a form of bribery for the camp guards typically trying to get more food.
While i was there i saw the thousands of pounds of hair mainly from women and children stacked up.
Paweł sawicki glasses that belonged to people brought to auschwitz for extermination.
The storage room at auschwitz was called canada and it was a chance for survival if an inmate s work detail was organizing the different stockpiles of items.
One of the saddest sights at auschwitz is the display of shoes in a huge glass case that takes up half a barracks room in block 5.
The shoes seem to be deteriorating and are mostly the same dark gray color except for a few women s or children s shoes that are made of red leather.
Paweł sawicki artificial limbs that belonged to people brought to auschwitz for extermination download.
Krakow poland through much of world war ii jozef paczynski cut the hair of auschwitz commandant rudolf hoess one of the most cold blooded and sadistic mass murders in adolf hitler s regi.
Not only that but it was easy to begin counting the number of glasses in the display case causing the visitor to focus even more acutely on the individual people.
Paweł sawicki the room in block 4 where hair cut after murdering people in the gas chambers are displayed download.
You can clearly see in the photo below that the hair in block 4 of the auschwitz museum has been subjected to zyklon b poison gas.
Each person has their own pair made especially for them and their needs.
Have a look at the official auschwitz.
In the hair room it was hard to see individual people but glasses are such an individualized thing.