In the basement of barack 11 were beside the standing cells different others. Prisoners sentenced to death by starvation were also placed here in 1941.
On Septmber 3-5, 1941, the SS carried out for their plan to beginning the “total extermination of the Jews” some trials of the use of Zyklon B gas for mass killing in the basement of barrack 11.
In this test, 600 Soviet prisoners of war and 250 Polish patients selected from the camp hospital were murdered.


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