Birkenau, the second camp at Auschwitz, specially designed to exterminate more people more quickly. Jews and other were shipped in on these train tracks. Here the SS men would separate the women and children from the men, and decided who would die immediately and who would live miserably in the camp.

The types of prisoners kept here, including homosexuals. It is estimated that up to 100,000 gays were kept in concentration camps because of their effeminate appearance and/or they were caught having sex with person of the same sex. Most of these were Germans, according to scholars. Gays were treated badly by the Nazis and fellow prisoners, who were prejudiced against gays, too.

The shoes of victims.

Children at the camp.

The cattle cars which prisoners arrived in. 80-100 people to a car. No sanitation.