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Document 102
[PMO neg. no. 8304]
Close-up of the
commemorative plaque on its stone base. The Polish text reads “IN
MEMORY OF THE MILLIONS OF JEWS MARTYRS AND FIGHTERS EXTERMINATED AT
THE AUSCHWITZ- BIRKENAU CAMP BY THE HITLERIAN RACE MURDERERS,
1940-1945.” The Hebrew texts have the same meaning. The dates
1940-1945 refer to the deaths throughout the camp and not
specifically in this Krematorium which worked only in 1943 and 1944.
Note the seven-branch candelabras engraved on the stones at the
bottom corners of the plaque. This memorial was subsequently
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Document 103
[PMO neg. no. 3486]
The first monument
erected at the end of the ramp between Krematorien II and III. View
of its western face. The second was to be erected further to the
west. In the background, the main entrance to the Birkenau camp,
with to the right B.I and to the left B.II. |
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Document 104
[PMO neg. no. 10201]
The construction, during the
winter of 1963-64, of the second Birkenau monument, a collective
work by Pietro Cascello, Giorgio Simonici, Jerzy Jarnuskiewicz and
Julian Palka. It's title: “International monument to the victims of
Fascism”, typical of the phraseology of the People’s Republics, is
absurd. Perhaps more appropriate would be “INTERNATIONAL MONUMENT TO
THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN FOLLY”.
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Document 105
[PMO neg. no. 10198]
View of the second Birkenau
monument, taken on the same day as the preceding one, on a west/east
line. This photograph, taken in the winder of 1963-64, was presented
on page 53 of the supplement to the “Patriote
Résistant” of January 1970, “L'impossible oubli”,
under the caption “Auschwitz in 1942”! Its author, knowing
nothing about scaffolding methods in that part of the world, had
decided after comparing this photograph with one of the construction
of the chimney of Krematorium IV in 1943, that this scene too must
date from the war. |
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AUSCHWITZ:
Technique
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of the gas chambers
Jean-Claude Pressac
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