Pangea Photo

Land of Os: Living in the Shadow of Auschwitz
A girl skates along the Birkenau perimeter road headed from the adjacent village of Brzezinka to the town of Os›wie™cim. The road separates farmland and houses circling the death camp museum. A buffer zone of 100 meters was established to limit development near Auschwitz - Birkenau, but some of the land had already been settled by the time the law was enacted.