The Nizkor Project: Remembering the Holocaust (Shoah)

Photographs From Maidanek (Majdanek)
by
Dr. Daniel Keren
May 1998


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Metal containers with a mixture of carbon oxides near gas chamber in Maidanek camp. Next to them, the connections that led the gas into the chambers. gas-chamber-2.jpg
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Gas chamber in Maidanek camp. Zyklon-B was dropped into the chamber after the victims were locked in it, killing them within minutes.
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A strong metal door for gas chamber in Maidanek. gas-outlet.jpg
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A perforated grid, protecting the outlet of a pipe leading from the gas containers (see bottled-gas.jpg in this page) into a gas chamber in Maidanek. Most probably, the grid was installed so the victims will not try to block the pipe's outlet.
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A report about hair, which was sold to the German firm Paul Reimann in Friedland (250 kilograms of hair, for 0.5 DM per kilogram). peephole-door.jpg
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A peephole in iron door of gas chamber.
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Peephole looking into a gas chamber. The glass is no longer there, although the protective grid is. This gas chamber is one of those which is connected with pipes to the gas containers (see bottled-gas.jpg in this page). shoes.jpg
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Some of the hundreds-of-thousands of shoes of the victims in Maidanek camp.
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A can of Zyklon-B (1.5 kilograms). zyklon.jpg
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Zyklon-B pellets


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