Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum

http://www.auschwitz.org.pl

History of KL Auschwitz
Overview of content; forego hyperlinks found on the page; scroll to bottom for important links
The Establishment of the Camp Read page for info on origin of camp. Use hyperlink for Oswiecim
The Expansion of the Camp Use hyperlink for Auschwitz II, 40 sub-camps, Buna (Auschwitz III)
The Crematoria & Gas Chambers
There is no text here. Use hyperlinks for gas chamber & crematorium I (take the hyperlinks from that page to learn more about Zyklon B, Soviet POWs, camp hospital, block #11 & death wall) bunker 1, bunker 2, gas chamber & crematorium II, gas chamber & crematorium III, gas chamber & crematorium IV
Number & Origin of Victims Read the page but use hyperlink “number and origin of victims” title at top of page to get to statistics from an article entitled “The Roads to Auschwitz” (Jews, Poles, Roma, Soviet POWs, Others); also from that page use the four-line hyperlink to get to an article called “Living Conditions, Labor, Executions” & take the other hyperlink to learn more about selections
Liberation Read the page and hyperlink to death marches.

 

The Establishment of the Museum: Its History & Current State
Read page; hyperlink to “Dates in the History of the Memorial and Museum” from the word ‘History’ in title; hyperlink to “The Monument to the Victims of Auschwitz Concentration Camp,” “IG Farben,” and “The Railroad Siding known as the Alte Judenrampe”
The Structure of the Museum
Information on contents of the archives, collections, preservation efforts, research, exhibition, education
International Council of Museum Establishment, make up & purpose of council
Bulletin Bulletins span 1998-2001

 

Latest News
Scroll down page, archives latest news from 1999; interesting article, “First Auschwitz Prisoner Dies”

 

Links
Good links here, many Polish. Hyperlink to the “Aktion Reinhardt Camps” for one and Site of International Auschwitz Council is another. Check out the ‘pictures’ link. There are modern photos of Auschwitz & Treblinka. Wait for page to load and then right arrow through the series of photos. Very good perspective.

Provided on 3/27/04 by Your Cyber Web Guide, Sheila Hansen, USHMM Mandel Fellow, 2000-2001, Spearfish, South Dakota