Zyklon B, an insecticide, is considered safer than carbon monoxyde by Rudolf Höss. At first, the gassings take place in the morgue of Crematorium I. Then, all the operations take place in Birkenau, in a transformated farm, which will receive the name of Bunker number I. Once the Jews have arrived, they must be brought to Bunker, and leave all their personal belongings : shoes, clothes, glasses... All these objects will be sorted in a warehouse called Kanada. Once sorted, all these objects are sent to Germany for civilian populations.
JULY 1942:
Each transport is selected. Mens on one side, womens and childrens on the other. They are divided into two colomns that go to the SS doctors who decide whether they go straight to death or to work. Mothers and childrens, pregnant womens, driven or buy truck, or on foot to Bunker. They are made to believe that they will be disinfected, so they must undress. About 800 peoples can enter at the same time, and once the doors are locked, the SS put the Zyklon B throught the small holes made for that. The agony can last up to several tens of minutes. It is only half an hour after the doors finally open, the dead bodies are then covered with blood and excrement. It is a special Kommando, the Sonderkommando, which has to remove the corpses from the gas chamber, remove all the gold teeths and finally, bury the bodies. And for the survivors, they undergo other as regulary as possible, until they all die.
