Death certificate of a Polish woman Józefa Grabiec (née Rudzińska, 1943), displayed at Auschwitz Exhibition. #Auschwitz maintained its own registry office, allowing it to issue death certificates of prisoners — and to control the handling and disposal of the victims’ bodies.

In World War I, face-to-face combat gave way to impersonal and indiscriminate slaughter — and gas attacks became a grim part of this new reality. Gas mask from @musealia_ private collection, featured in Auschwitz Exhibition

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This stretcher was mainly used not to care for the injured, but to carry those exhausted and sick to a gas chamber or transport corpses to the crematorium. Stretcher from Auschwitz Memorial collections now on view at Auschwitz Exhibition

The German Nazis sought to erase as much evidence as possible — but the scale of their crimes could not be hidden. Human ash or heaps of unburnt corpses, tons of human hair, but also tens of thousands of personal items, like shoes... #NotLongAgoNotFarAway

#Auschwitz was the largest, deadliest, and most systematically organized of all camps established by Nazi Germany. It served both as a concentration camp and an extermination center — claiming more lives than any other camp in the Nazi system. #NotLongAgoNotFarAway

The Auschwitz Exhibition explores the dual identity of #Auschwitz as a physical location—the largest documented mass murder site in human history—and as a symbol of the borderless manifestation of hatred and human barbarity. Learn more about the exhibition at theauschwitzexhibition.com

Please feel free to take photos, but remember that flash, tripods, and any devices that may disturb other visitors are not allowed. Kindly ensure your photos honor the memory of the victims. You can share your visit with the hashtag #NotLongAgoNotFarAway

Thanks to this blanket, Siegfried Fedrid, a prisoner at #Auschwitz, along with five other inmates, managed to survive the so-called "Death March" of 1945. Fedrid was later liberated from Dachau camp. Collection from @HolocaustCtr at Auschwitz Exhibition

Red Army war artist Zinovy Tolkachev created drawings after arriving at #Auschwitz following liberation. When he ran out of paper, he sketched on letterhead found in the commandant’s office. Original in the collection of Yad Vashem

Germany, September 1941 | A woman wearing the Jewish badge. #NotLongAgoNotFarAway

Makeshift knife made illegally by a prisoner (1940s) Collection of the Auschwitz Memorial displayed in Auschwitz Exhibition

Each of the over 700 objects displayed at Auschwitz Exhibition tells the story of an individual — a man, woman, or child whom the German Nazis labeled as "enemies." #NotLongAgoNotFarAway

Prisoners built much of the camp and crafted its furniture. Polish master blacksmith Jan Liwacz was arrested in October 1939 for burning an effigy of Hitler. In June 1940, he was sent to #Auschwitz, where he forged ironwork—including these pieces made for Kommandant Rudolf Höss.

Box and chess pieces made with a can of sardines that reads: "Auschwitz, 1943". Mirosław Ganobis private collection displayed at the Auschwitz Exhibition. #NotLongAgoNotFarAway

For Nazi #Germany the laws of Nuremberg (1935) showed the relationships and marriages allowed and prohibited. Anyone with 3 or 4 Jewish grandparents counted as a #Jew and could only marry another Jew; their children would be Jews. Deutsches Historisches Museum Collection.

“Death begins with the shoes: for most of us, they prove to be instruments of torture, which after a few hours of marching cause painful sores that become fatally infected" —Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor

September, 1939 | Locals searching for their belongings after the German bombardment of the Polish capital, Warsaw.

One of the most challenging lessons for us, learned from the history of #Auschwitz, is the importance of human responsibility. We must learn about the past to make our world a better place today and in the future. #NotLongAgoNotFarAway

Cover of Feldzug in Polen (Campaign in Poland, 1939). This propaganda publication’s cover depicts the demarcation line dividing the German and Soviet partitions. Collection of Robert Jan van Pelt part of Auschwitz Exhibition.