Auschwitz II, set up in Spring 1942, with four gas chambers to exterminate Jews.

This was Auschwitz II, the site of four gas chambers.

One of the Auschwitz sub-camps; site of the gas chambers and the crematorium

Birkenau is a municipality in the Odenwald located in the South of Hessen in Germany. It is part of the district of Kreis Bergstraße (translated: mountain road) and is called "the village of sun dials". This lovely town is in the heart of the Odenwald "Oden's Forrest".