The hair room at Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum is one of the most difficult spaces visitors encounter. Behind glass sits human hair taken from victims after their deaths, collected, sorted, and shipped as raw material during the war. This room exists not to shock, but to confront an uncomfortable reality about industrialized dehumanization. The hair is not preserved. It is slowly decaying, a reminder that time passes, but evidence remains. What’s displayed today is only a fraction of what was