In Room 5 is a huge glass display case,  filled with hair cut from the heads of an estimated 140,000 victims.

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Eyeglasses taken from the Auschwitz prisoners before they were taken to the gas chamber.  

The Jews were instructed to mark their suitcases for later identification.

All but six of the clothing warehouse buildings at Birkenau had been set on fire when the camp was abandoned by the Nazis on January 18, 1945.

When the Soviet Union liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, there were 43,000 pairs of shoes in the camp. 

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