Trees and bushes growing around the old railroad tracks once used to transport Jews and others from across Europe to Auschwitz, the Nazi German extermination and labor camp, in Oswiecim ...

This plan directed attention to another aspect. For many railroad platforms in Germany and Europe, Auschwitz was the final stop. The Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp had its own railway line.

2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) Snow covers railroad tracks once used to transport Jews from across Europe to Auschwitz, the Nazi German extermination and labor camp, in Oswiecim, Poland ...

By 1944 a three-track railroad spur and unloading ramp was operational at Auschwitz, ferrying as many Jews to their deaths as possible as mass murder was made functional and effortless.

A photo taken in January 1945 showing the entrance to the Birkenau camp and its railroad line, after its liberation by Soviet troops. AFP - - In his latest book, Auschwitz 1945, Bande has tried to ...

The railroad played a key role in the genocide, transporting more than 400,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz over two months in 1944.

Trees and bushes growing around the old railroad tracks once used to transport Jews and others from across Europe to Auschwitz, the Nazi German extermination and labor camp, in Oswiecim ...

Trees and bushes growing around the old railroad tracks once used to transport Jews and others from across Europe to Auschwitz, the Nazi German extermination and labor camp, in Oswiecim ...

The railroad played a key role in the genocide, transporting more than 400,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz over two months in 1944. Follow the AP’s coverage of the U.S. Supreme Court at https ...