A sign in Polish, English & Hebrew by the swimming pool in Auschwitz I states:
"Fire brigade reservoir built in the form of a swimming pool, probably in early 1944"
In 1947 a Jewish Auschwitz survivor, stated Auschwitz had a swimming pool:
"The working hours were modified on Sundays and holidays,
when most of the kommandos were at leisure. Roll call was at
around noon; evenings were devoted to rest and to a choice of
cultural and sporting activities. Football, basketball, and
water-polo matches (in an open-air pool built within the perimeter by detainees) attracted crowds of onlookers. It should be noted that only the very fit and well-fed, exempt from the harsh jobs, could indulge in these games which drew the liveliest applause from the masses of other detainees."
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