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Personal effects taken from the prisoners at Auschwitz before they were taken to the gas chamber. [LCID: 14877]
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Nazi Gas Chambers

During World War II, the Nazis used poisonous gas to murder millions of people in gas chambers. Mass gassings were one of the Nazis’ main methods of mass murder. They murdered Jews, people with disabilities, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, and others in this way. In the Nazi gas chambers, victims suffered inhumane, terrifying, and often painful deaths.

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Women group together in a prisoner barracks. Some of the women are laying on the floor, while others are laying on the wooden bunk beds. All of them are wearing heavy outwear or wrapped in blankets.

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Blanka Rothschild holds one of her prewar family photographs. [LCID: athbr039]

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