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  2. Sonderkommando photographs - Wikipedia

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    The images were taken within 15–30 minutes of each other by an inmate inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex. Usually named only as Alex, a Jewish prisoner from Greece, the photographer was a member of the Sonderkommando, inmates forced to work in and around the gas chambers.

  3. List of victims and survivors of Auschwitz - Wikipedia

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    Friedman is among the youngest people to survive the Nazi Holocaust [48] Helen Lewis: June 22, 1916: December 31, 2009: 93 Jewish May 1944 – January 1945 Dancer who trained in Prague. Left Auschwitz on a forced march to Stutthof concentration camp in January 1945. [49] Anna Eilenberg-Eibeshitz: November 5, 1923: 101 Jewish Author Władysław ...

  4. Category : People who died in Auschwitz concentration camp

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    Pages in category "People who died in Auschwitz concentration camp" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.

  5. SS command of Auschwitz concentration camp - Wikipedia

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    The SS command of Auschwitz concentration camp refers to those units, commands, and agencies of the German SS which operated and administered during World War II.Due to its large size and key role in the Nazi genocide program, the Auschwitz Concentration Camp encompassed personnel from several different branches of the SS, some of which held overlapping and shared areas of responsibility.

  6. Auschwitz concentration camp - Wikipedia

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    The first gassings at Auschwitz took place on September 3, 1941, when around 850 inmates—Soviet prisoners of war and sick Polish inmates—were killed with Zyklon B in the basement of block 11 in Auschwitz I. The building proved unsuitable, so gassings were conducted instead in crematorium I, also in Auschwitz I, which operated until December ...

  7. Sonderkommando Revolt in Auschwitz - Wikipedia

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    The Birkenau camp (Auschwitz II) was the largest extermination facility built by the Nazis during World War II, where over a million people (mostly Jews) were murdered. The construction of the camp was completed in March 1942 and covered an area of about 5 km 2, enclosed by a four-meter high fence. [3]

  8. Photography of the Holocaust - Wikipedia

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    A small number of pictures appeared in later years, vetted by propaganda and censorship officials before publication. [5] Official visit of Himmler to Mauthausen in June 1941. Bodies waiting to be burned outdoors in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Taken in secret by a team of Sonderkommando workers in August 1944 and later smuggled out to the Polish ...

  9. List of Holocaust survivors - Wikipedia

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    The people on this list are or were survivors of Nazi Germany's attempt to exterminate the Jewish people in Europe before and during World War II. A state-enforced persecution of Jewish people in Nazi-controlled Europe lasted from the introduction of the Nuremberg Laws in 1935 to Hitler's defeat in 1945.