The presidents visited an extensive section of the Museum exposition, among others Block 4, containing basic information about people deported to Auschwitz: Jews, Poles, the Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and representatives of other nationalities and groups imprisoned by the Germans in the camp. The block also houses a model of the gas chamber and crematorium II at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, empty cans of Zyklon B, as well as human hair cut off from the murdered victims.
In Block 5, the guests saw personal objects of victims that were found in these storage rooms after the liberation of the camp. These include shoes, suitcases, prosthesis, glasses, brushes, kitchen utensils etc.
Andrzej Duda and Mike Pence laid wreaths and paid tribute to all the victims of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp at the Execution Wall in the courtyard of block 11, where the Germans executed approximately 5,500 people, mostly Poles, prisoners detained in the camp prison and the so-called political prisoners sentenced to death by the Gestapo summary court.
Then the presidents descended into the basement of Block 11, which housed the camp prison. Here, the saw among others, the starvation cell where Franciscan friar, Rev. Maximilian Kolbe was murdered in August 1941. In the basements of block 11, in September 1941, the Germans made the first mass attempt to murder people using Zyklon B.
The visitors also visited the Jewish “Shoah” exhibition prepared by the Yad Vashem in Block 27. The subsequent rooms are dedicated, among others, to the life of the Jews before the war, the ideology of German Nazis, and the extermination of Jews in the German-occupied territory of Europe. One of the rooms is dedicated to the memory of children murdered during the Holocaust.
In the building of the first gas chamber and crematorium in Auschwitz I Agata Kornhauser-Duda and Karen Pence both left one red rose.