Top Left: The entrance to Birkenau.  Prisoners were transported by train.
Top Right: The train tracks cut right through the center of the concentration camp.  As soon as they were removed from the trains, prisoners were divided into groups: those who were able to work, and those who were to be immediately executed.
Middle Right: Mr. Surface and I at one of the main prison gates.
Right: A cart used to remove the dead from the barracks.
Left: Mr. Surface and I on one of the roads that connect the barracks.

Left: "For ever let this place be a cry of despair and a warning to humanity, where the Nazis murdered about one and a half million men, women, and children, mainly Jews from various countries of Europe."

Right: Ruins.  At the end of Warld War II, in an attempt to hide their atrocities, the Nazis burned or blew up many of the buildings in the camp.

Left: As we walked to the far end of Birkenau--toward the crematoria--we came across a group of Israeli students who were conducting a memorial at the site of a destroyed gas chamber.  The students held hands and sang songs of prayer and tribute.  This was the most human and touching moment for me of my visit to these foreboding and inhuman concentration camps.