The utensils, tools and scraps of leather could mean that the prisoners were planning an escape or they were used to survive the Nazi camp. (JTA) — Utensils, tools and scraps of leather were ...

And at Auschwitz they journeyed down the long and crooked road to mass murder to create this—the building which symbolised their crime—a factory of death. Dario Gabbai—Jewish prisoner ...

began building up the camp in 1940 when the first Polish prisoners arrived. After the war, he was captured and testified at the Nuremberg trials and was eventually hanged at Auschwitz in 1947.

Canister labels, Zyklon B In the fall of 1941, the basement of cell block 11—the Auschwitz building where some of the most despicable punishments were meted out—was sealed and locked down.