The Women's Camp at Auschwitz Birkenau - Inside a Typical Barrack

The first part of the camp passed on the left-hand side of Hauptstrasse b is the part of the camp that was used to incarcerate the women.

I managed to walk round a typical barrack in the women's section in 2009. On subsequent visits the huts were closed and in a lot of cases have been shored up probably do to collapse

The quality of the video is not great but shows the interior of a typical barrack in the women's section at Birkenau. Up to 6 prisoners would sleep on each shelf. The Kapo's would wake up the women prisoners every morning my hitting the edge of the bunks with sticks while shouting. Any dead bodies were carried and left outside the block for collection.

I took another video of the interior of block 25 known as the 'Death Barrack' in 2013 which is shown below. Sick prisoners selected by the SS guards would wait several days until their turn to be sent to the gas chambers.