SS Administration
Building
Catholic Church and
school in building formerly used by the SS
The photo above shows the SS headquarters,
built in 1944 at Birkenau, which has been converted into a Catholic
church and a school. The photo below shows the front of the building.
It is located about a quarter of a mile north of the red brick
gate house of the Birkenau camp, which is on this same road,
but on the opposite side. The road that goes past this building
is used by the residents of the village of Birkenau.
In the photo below, the road in the foreground
is inside the former Birkenau camp. A barrier gate prevents cars
from driving into the camp. The road in the foreground leads
to the gas chambers in Krema IV and Krema V. Before these gas
chambers were put into operation in the summer of 1943, trucks
brought the Jews from the Judenrampe down this road to the "little
red house" where the first gassings took place.
Former SS administration
building is now a Catholic Church
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