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  1. 8 January 1894 | A Polish man, Fr. Maximilian Kolbe, OFM, was born in Zduńska Wola.

    As a prisoner of #Auschwitz at the end of July 1941, he sacrificed his life to save a person selected for starvation death after an escape. On 14 August 1941, he was murdered with a phenol injection.

    #Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2  #Poland #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #histodons #Remember #otd #facts #priest #saint #franciscans

  2. Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Ruins of gas chamber and crematorium V.

    The gas chamber space was divided into three smaller rooms & the crematorium had one 8-muffle oven.

    (📷 instagram.com/alma.nz_journey)

    Learn more about the history of Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_1/

    #Auschwitz #Birkenau #ww2 #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #education #history #gaschamber #crematoria #ruins #architecture #building @histodons

  3. Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Ruins of gas chamber and crematorium IV.

    The gas chamber was divided into three smaller rooms and had a total of 236.78 square meters. The crematorium had one eight-oven furnace.

    The building was set on fire by the #Sonderkommando prisoners during the revolt on 7 October 1944:
    lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_10_son

    #Birkenau #Auschwitz #memorial #site #gaschamber #crematorium #crematorium #ruins #remains #photography #evideNCE #NeverForget #history #Holocaust @histodons @museum