Auschwitz-Birkenau - photographs by Bill Hunt

The furnaces of Crematorium I could burn approximately 350 bodies daily. The crematorium was built by the firm Topf und Söhne from Erfurt, the same which in 1942 and 1943 installed the furnaces in the four crematoria at Birkenau. Crematorium 1 was working from 1940 to 1943.


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The furnaces of Crematorium I could burn approximately 350 bodies daily. The crematorium was built by the firm Topf und Söhne from Erfurt, the same which in 1942 and 1943 installed the furnaces in the four crematoria at Birkenau. Crematorium 1 was working from 1940 to 1943.