Auschwitz 2: Section B2D: Men's Camp

Compound B2D (Bauabschnitt BIId) Auschwitz II (Birkenau)

Museum sign in front of Compound B2D, a men's camp

The sign in front of Compound B2D reads

Compound BIId (Bauabschnitt IId)

This compound of the camp was a camp for men (Jews and non-Jews) from different countries (Männerlager), and functioned from July 1943 to January 1945.

1 - Central food storage. Prisoners who had been condemned to death by the SS were held here in an annex

X - Place where prisoners were execited by hanging

2 - Main administrative office, work assignment office

3-14,16,18,20,22-30,32 - Prisoners' barracks

11 - Barrack for prisoners of the special penal unit (Strafkompanie)

13 - Barrack for prisoners of the Sonderkommando

15,17 - Warehouses for prisoner clothing

19,21 - Shoemaking and tailoring workshops

31 - 'Infirmary' and dentist's office

A - Kitchen

C - Latrines and washrooms

D - SS Guardroom (Blockfuehrerstube)