Panstwowe Muzeum na Majdanku collection

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn2899
• angielski
• 1945
• overall : 24.000 x 35.500 in. (60.96 x 90.17 cm.) Crate of siliceous earth with residue of Zyklon B (hydrogen cyanide). Content of this sample of Zyklon B: 94% calcium sulfite, 6% barium sulfite; .03% inert metals; .05% cyanide (495 parts per million - lethal dose is 300 parts per million). Problem soils (lcsh)
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Barrel of soil containing deactivated Zyklon B crystals found outside a crematorium after the liberation of Majdanek concentration camp in Lublin, Poland, by Soviet forces on July 23, 1944. Zyklon B is the commercial name of hydrogen cyanide (HCN), a highly poisonous gas used by the Germans in the gas chambers in the extermination camps. It was delivered to the camps in pellet form in sealed tin canisters. Upon exposure of the crystals to air, any person breathing it would be asphyxiated within minutes. From 1941-1942, Majdanek was a forced labor camp for Soviet prisoners of war, Jews, and ...