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Auschwitz II (Birkenau)
Construction on Auschwitz II (Birkenau) began in October 1941 to ease congestion at the main camp. It was designed to hold several categories of prisoners, and to function as an extermination camp in the context of Himmler's preparations for the Final Solution of the Jewish Question. From March to June of 1943, four new crematoria, Crematoria II, III, IV, and V, were completed and handed over to t…
Creator
- Gareth Talbot
Publisher
- Archaeology Data Service
Subject
- Concentration Camp
- Prison Camp
- Archaeology
- archaeology
- Archaeology
Type of item
- Digital photograph
Date
- 2008-08-05
- 2008-08-05
Creator
- Gareth Talbot
Publisher
- Archaeology Data Service
Subject
- Concentration Camp
- Prison Camp
- Archaeology
- archaeology
- Archaeology
Type of item
- Digital photograph
Date
- 2008-08-05
- 2008-08-05
Providing institution
Aggregator
Intermediate provider
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Rights
- Gareth Talbot
Creation date
- 2007-Dec-12
Temporal
- Modern
Provenance
- Archaeology Image Bank: Created and hosted by the ADS for the Higher Education Academy subject centre for History, Classics and Archaeology and updated in 2011 this resource is intended as a tool for locating and sharing archaeological images for use in teaching, studying and research.
Source
- Archaeology Data Service
Identifier
- IB_2192
Format
- jpg
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-10-30T21:38:17.408Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-07-25T11:21:26.369Z