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The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. [1] Along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album, they are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.
Series: Aerial Photography of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, compiled 1973 - 1973, documenting the period 1944 - 1945 (National Archives Identifier: 305893) NAIL Control Number: NWDNC-263-AUSCHWITZ-19(12) 263-AUSCHWITZ-19(12) Source: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: Other versions
See Auschwitz Album, Yad Vashem: "The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau." The album was donated to Yad Vashem by Lili Jacob (later Lili Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier), a survivor, who found it in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in 1945.
Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly a million Jews. On the day of liberation 78 years ago, only 7,000 were saved.
The Auschwitz Album is a photographic record of the Holocaust during the Second World War.It and the Sonderkommando photographs are among the small number of visual documents that show the operations of Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the German extermination camp in occupied Poland.
It contains over one hundred images of the lives and living conditions of the officers and administrators who ran the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp complex. The album is unique and an indispensable document of the Holocaust ; it is now in the archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington, D.C.
The Auschwitz concentration camp was established in April 1940 as a prison to hold Nazi Germany’s enemies following the invasion of Poland.
Similar individual "identification photographs" or "mug shots" of prisoners of Auschwitz and other German concentration camps are accessible in the searchable online Photo Archives of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM); biographical-information cards including these photographs and each corresponding to a concentration-camp ...