The deportation

Chapter I “The world of concentration camps”

2. The ‘Kommando’

By the word ‘kommando’ we include all those camps, for men and women, annexed from a central camp to which they were attached. In Auschwitz 2 (Birkenau) the struggle for survival became harder as the camp took control of the agricultural out-buildings and the experimental centres.

 

 

Through this entrance came in the carriages with new victims.

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Letter card written from the Birkenau camp on January 6, 1945.

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