Auschwitz 2: Selection Ramp

Photo of the selection ramp in Block 4 of Auschwitz 1

The eastern-end of the ramp is to the left of the set of rails on the left of the photo

Location of the unloading ramp Auschwitz-Birkenau

Sign on the left reads:
In the selection process, the SS doctor divides the Jews who have recently arrived in
a transport into those who are fit for work and become prisoners of the concentration
camp and those who are intended for immediate death in the gas chambers
Photo taken by the SS, 1944
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Sign on the right reads (refers to road in photo below):
Jews selected by the SS for Immediate death in the Gas Chamber
of Crematoria IV and V were herded along this road
Photo taken by the SS, 1944

Cattle-cart in which Jews were taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau,
looking good for 70+ years old

Looking north up the road which runs between Compounds B2D (left) and B2C

Position photo was taken

Sign reads:
Jews selected by the SS for Immediate death in the Gas Chamber
of Crematoria IV and V were herded along this road
Photo taken by the SS, 1944