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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.
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 ...
The captions of the photographs, and the people featured in the images, quickly confirmed that it depicts life in and around the Auschwitz camps. The very first photograph is a double portrait of Richard Baer , Auschwitz camp commandant between 1944 and 1945, and Baer's adjutant, Karl Höcker .
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.
Auschwitz concentration camp [a] was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) [3] during World War II and the Holocaust.
Renovators at Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum found the incomplete set in the prison’s first floor, hidden under a floorboard so as to avoid detection from the brutal Nazi guards who ...
Media in category "Images of Auschwitz concentration camp" The following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total. A. File:Auschwitz destroyed gas chamber.JPG; B.
Photographs documenting the arrival process of Hungarian Jews from the Tet Ghetto in the Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp during the second half of 1944. Appearing in the photograph: 1. Rozi Bittman nee Mueller from Tacova, survived, the daughter of Moshe Zvi and Fassil (nee Herschkovicz), wife of David Josef Bittman.