aerial photograph
Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II (Birkenau)

Reconnaissance photograph of the Auschwitz concentration camp taken on June 25, 1944.

Auschwitz I appears at bottom left, Auschwitz II (Birkenau) at top. The Sola River can be seen running alongside Auschwitz I at screen bottom.

(For a close-up of this image, go to "Auschwitz-Birkenau Complex" in the Master Plans interactive.)

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives