The gas chamber and Crematorium IV building.
SS photograph, 1944.
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The Crematorium IV building, which contained a gas chamber and furnaces for burning corpses.
Thousands of Jewish men, women and children were murdered here with poison gas, and their bodies burned.
The bodies of Jewish and non-Jewish prisoners who died in the concentration camp were also burned here. According to calculations by the German authorities, 768 corpses could be burned in this crematorium every 24 hours. According to the testimony of former prisoners, the figure was higher.
The apparatus of mass murder in this building functioned, with interruptions, from March 1943 until October 7, 1944. The building was burned down on the day of the mutiny of the Jewish prisoners from the Sonderkommando. |
