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Summary

Description The "Kanada" barracks in the Auschwitz concentration camp, German-occupied Poland, during the Holocaust. The warehouses were named "Kanada" because they were seen as the land of plenty. They contained the looted belongings of prisoners, including those sent to the gas chamber on arrival.
Date May/June 1944
Source USHMM , photograph 779933. Also see Auschwitz Album , Yad Vashem.
Author Anonymous; thought to be SS officers Bernhardt Walter and Ernst Hofmann


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