This photograph reveals the infamous railway line leading through the main gate of Birkenau death camp. Constructed to be fifteen times larger than Auschwitz just a few kilometers down the road, it was completed in May of 1944 and used primarily for the transportation of Hungarian Jews to the camp.
Arrival & Selection was a term used at Auschwitz -Birkenau that sorted the fate of the more than 1.2 million men, women and children transported to the camp in cattle rail cars. As the people left the cars a physician would select the ones to go to their death--most women and children and older or ailing men and women-- and those who would be sent to work to their death.
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