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Much of the photography of the Holocaust is the work of Nazi German photographers. [7] Some originated as routine administrative procedure, such as identification photographs (); others were intended to illustrate the construction and functioning of the camps or prisoner transport. [5]
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.
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.
RELATED: Holocaust Remembrance Day On April 15, 1944, that group attempted to flee through the tunnel, but only 12 are said to have made it through alive, reports the New York Times .
The exact location and the photographer are not known, and Blösche is the only person in the photograph who can be identified with certainty. The image is one of the most famous photographs of the Holocaust, [a] and the boy came to represent children in the Holocaust, as well as all Jewish victims. [b]
The vicious attack on Jews following a soccer match in Amsterdam left one New Yorker who fled the Dutch city as a child to escape the Holocaust “in shock.” “It’s like a modern-day ...
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