The infamous German inscription that reads 'Work Makes Free' at the main gate of the Auschwitz I extermination camp in Oswiecim in Poland
The railway track leading to the infamous 'Death Gate' at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination campJews, with the yellow stars sewn on their coats, arrive at the camp in 1944Women and children getting off trains at their arrival in 1943Children wear the camp uniform in this image from 1944More than 1.1 million people, mainly Jews from Europe, were murdered at the camp between 1940 and 1945They were killed in gas chambers, shown here, or from systematic starvation, forced labour, disease and medical experimentsFloral tributes are regularly left at the execution wall at the Auschwitz I campThe sun rises over chimneys and the remains of detention blocks at the Auschwitz II Berkenau
The exhibition at the camp houses thousands of children's shoes that were taken from prisonersAnother exhibit houses the hundreds of suitcases taken from people on their arrival at the campThe original security lights illuminate the barbed wire perimeter fence of the Auschwitz IPrisoners bunks line the inside of a block at the Auschwitz II Birkenau extermination campEach block housed hundreds of prisonersYoung Israelis draped in their national flag as they visited the camp in November 2014An Israeli flag lies on the ruin of a detention block at the Auschwitz II BirkenauOne of the Israeli visitors looks at the images of some of the camp's prisonersThe camp was liberated by advancing Soviet soldiers in January 1945
