Editing Auschwitz concentration camp (section)

===Transports===
[[File:Freight car, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, 2014.jpg|thumb|[[Goods wagon|Freight car]] inside Auschwitz II-Birkenau, near the gatehouse, used to transport deportees, 2014<ref name=traincar>{{cite web |title=An Original German Train Car at the Birkenau Ramp |url=http://auschwitz.org/en/museum/news/an-original-german-train-car-at-the-birkenau-ramp,659.html |publisher=Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum |date=14 October 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190125215121/http://auschwitz.org/en/museum/news/an-original-german-train-car-at-the-birkenau-ramp,659.html |archive-date=25 January 2019}}</ref>]]
Deportees were brought to Auschwitz crammed in wretched conditions into goods or cattle wagons, arriving near a railway station or at one of several dedicated trackside ramps, including one next to Auschwitz I. The ''Altejudenrampe'' (old Jewish ramp), part of the Oświęcim freight railway station, was used from 1942 to 1944 for Jewish transports.<ref name=traincar/>{{sfn|Iwaszko|2000a|p=17}} Located between Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II, arriving at this ramp meant a 2.5&nbsp;km journey to Auschwitz II and the gas chambers. Most deportees were forced to walk, accompanied by SS men and a car with a Red Cross symbol that carried the Zyklon B, as well as an SS doctor in case officers were poisoned by mistake. Inmates arriving at night, or who were too weak to walk, were taken by truck.{{sfn|Piper|1998c|p=162}} Work on a new railway line and ramp ''(right)'' between sectors BI and BII in Auschwitz II, was completed in May 1944 for the arrival of [[History of the Jews in Hungary#The Holocaust|Hungarian Jews]]{{sfn|Iwaszko|2000a|p=17}} between May and early July 1944.{{sfn|Longerich|2010|p=408}} The rails led directly to the area around the gas chambers.<ref name=traincar/>