There is a large display case in Block 5, taking up half of a barracks room, which contains the suitcases brought by Jewish victims to the camp.
The Jews were instructed to mark their suitcases for later identification; you can still see the names written on the leather cases in large letters in the photo below.
Some of the suitcases have the word Waisenkind, which means orphan; this is proof that there were children among the victims at Auschwitz.
The leather suitcases have not deteriorated like the shoes, which probably means that the shoes were disinfected with Zyklon-B in preparation for sending them back to Germany, but the suitcases weren't.
There are also some baskets in this display, used by the victims to carry their meager belongings with them to the camp.
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