Inside the crematorium at Auschwitz I, the original Nazi German concentration camp established in 1940. This room—housing the brick ovens and metal carts used for incinerating the bodies of murdered victims—was in operation from 1940 until mid-1943, when the facility ceased functioning as a place of mass extermination and shifted to the gas chambers and crematoria of nearby Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
The peeling walls, dim bulb, and silence in this preserved space speak to the horrors perpetrated here and the calculated brutality of the Holocaust. Auschwitz I now stands as a memorial and museum, honoring over a million Jews and countless others who were deported, tortured, and murdered across the Auschwitz complex.
Photographed in 2025 during a personal journey of remembrance and historical reflection.