Two sets of furnaces where bodies were burned. The device at the
oven mouth is mounted on rails and used to push the bodies into
the flames. Scroll to the right and look through the door to the
gas chamber (see Auschwitz # 16). After gassing, prisoners
workers called Sonderkommando (special workers), men who were
forced on pain of death to do this work, carried or dragged the
bodies to the rail carts that were used to push the bodies into
the ovens. Scrolling around you see some of the devices used for
another oven no longer there. This was an early version of the
industrial mass production methods used for murdering countless
souls. As you will see in the Birkenau exhibition (see Birkenau
Map), the Nazis were to greatly improve the size and efficiency
of their mass destruction methods.