Crematorium

A crematorium is a facility where human corpses are incinerated. During the Second World War, crematoria were systematically used by the Nazis in concentration and extermination camps such as Auschwitz, Treblinka and Sobibor to cover up the mass murder of Jews and other victim groups and to dispose of the bodies.

In these camps, crematoria were often used in conjunction with gas chambers to quickly incinerate large numbers of murdered victims after they had been killed. Today, the use of crematoria in the Nazi extermination camps is a gruesome symbol of the systematic violence and industrialized murder during the Shoah.