Poland Oswiecim

picture of the tombstones in the Auschwitz-Birkenau site

2012
01/02
NIKON D90, 18.0-200.0 mm f/3.5-5.6 @ f/8.0 1/40, ISO 200
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The ashes memorial at one of the Birkenau ponds. The black stone plaques bear inscriptions in Polish, English and Hebrew in memory of the victims. In this pond were thrown the ashes of thousands of people killed in the gas chambers and cremated in the camp ovens.

Auschwitz concentration camp Birkenau Shoa Memory Unesco World Heritage Site