Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau

This guide to the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau begins in late July 1941, when a prisoner disappears overnight and the camp commander walks the ranks, choosing ten men to die in collective punishment. It follows a Polish army sergeant named Franciszek Gajowniczek, selected among them, and a Franciscan friar named Maximilian Kolbe, who steps forward from the ranks though no one called his name. Walk past this block slowly, and picture the roll call that once lined up here.