The Camp Gate

Camp gate bearing the legend "Arbeit macht frei". Postwar photograph, 1945.
Here, thousands of prisoners went out each day to long hours of arduous labor.
In the evening, they returned exhausted, carrying the corpses of those who had died.

Here, the camp orchestra played marches intended to facilitate the passage of prisoners on their way to work and returning to the camp.

Camp orchestra at KL Auschwitz I.
SS photograph, 1941.