Brick Barracks in Sector BIb

A current photograph of the brick barracks in Sector BIb of the women's camp at Birkenau concentration camp

After March 1942, there was a camp here for Jewish and non-Jewish men deported from various countries. In July 1943, the men were moved to Sector BIId, and this sector was annexed to the camp for Jewish and non-Jewish women, which existed until November 1944.

The interior of a brick barrack. Several hundred prisoners at a time were crowded into such a barrack.

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