Topographical sketch and report of the Auschwitz concentration camp (catalogue reference FO 371/42806)
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The Concentration Camp at Oswiecim/Auschwitz/
Explanations to the attached plan:
- Towers, sentries with machine guns /12/
- 1a. Sentry, road gate
- Amunition damp [sic]
- Canteen
- Room of the block commander with his little tower for a sentry.
- Block N.1. – rooms for internees
- Block N.2. – “ “ “ and washrooms
- Block N.3,4,5, — Rooms for internees
- Block N.6. — Museum
- Block N.7,8,9,10, — lodgings
- Block N.11. —- penal company
- Block N.12 — lodgings and arrest /bunkers/
- Block N.13 — N.19 —- lodgings
- Block N.20 — special lodging for weak persons and persons unable to work
- Block N.21 — hospital and surgery
- Block N.22, 23, 24 — lodgings nr. 24 ground floor – office
- Block N.25 — lodgings; on the 1-st floor store-room.
- Block N.26 — safe and magazine
- Block N.27 — clothing dept, and baths
- Block N.28 — general hospital
- Kitchen
- Lodgings for S.S. N.C.O’
- 6a. “ “ “ “ and political dept.,
- lodgins [sic] for commandant of the camp.
- Crematorium
- Xxxx administrative biuldings [sic]
- slaughter house
- dairy
- joinery
- concrete work shop
- machine laundry
- administrative biuldings [sic]
- timber warehouse
- biuldingx [sic] materials warehouse
- camp for civilian workers who are not interned at the camp
- military workshops
- stores of belongings taken away from the prisoners
- xxx stores of the SS
- Barrack rooms for the SS
- offices /
- SS barack [sic] rooms, stores on the ground floor
- SS kitchen
- Stores
- dwelling houses for oficers [sic]
- Stables
- Unloading square / for transportation to Brzezinki/
- SS barracks, square, kennels.
- a and b. concentration camp for women
- c. gas chambers in a wood west of Brzezinki/Birkenau/
- d. crematorium, in a wood probably west of the barracks