The Crematorium V building, which contained a gas chamber and
furnaces for burning corpses. Thousands of Jewish men, women,
and children were murdered by gas and their bodies burned here.
The bodies of Jewish and non-Jewish prisoners who died in the
concentration camp were also burned here. At times, the bodies
of those who had been murdered were also burned on pyres in pits located near Crematorium V and the so-called bunkers.
The mass murder apparatus in this building functioned, with interruptions,
from April 1943 until January 1945. As part of the operation intended
to remove evidence of their crimes, the SS blew up the building
on January 26, 1945.
