picture of a "block" in the Auschwitz-birkenau concentration camp

One of the brick barracks in the women sector of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. These structures, more solid than wooden barracks, housed hundreds of female prisoners in extremely overcrowded conditions. The Birkenau camp, built in 1941, became the main extermination center of the complex.

Auschwitz concentration camp Block Shoa Memory Unesco World Heritage Site