Auschwitz_Resistance_280.jpg

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English: One of four photographs from Auschwitz-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, part of a series known as the Sonderkommando photographs .

The photograph shows bodies waiting to be burned. Bodies were burned in outdoor fire pits when the crematoria were full.

Date

Taken in August 1944

Source

Origin of this file: Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz, Head of Archives, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum;
published by Judith Lermer Crawley , 14 April 2005. A cropped version was published in Stanislaw Wrzos-Glinka, Tadeusz Mazur and Jerzy Tomaszewski, 1939–1945: Cierpienie i walka narodu polskiego , Warsaw, 1958. See File:Auschwitz Resistance 280 cropped.jpg and here .

Author

Alex, Aleko or Alekos, a member of the Sonderkommando from Greece, often named as Albert, Alex or Alberto Errera , a Greek army or naval officer who died in Auschwitz in 1944.

For Errera's death, see Gideon Graif, We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz , Yale University Press, 2005, p. 375; Steven Bowman, The Agony of Greek Jews, 1940–1945 , Stanford University Press, 2009, p. 95 ; Shlomo Venezia, Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz , John Wiley & Sons, 2013, p. 90ff.

Permission
( Reusing this file )

This photograph is in the public domain because according to the Art. 3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland , all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed to be in the public domain in Poland.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it meets three requirements:

it was first published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days),
it was first published before 1 March 1989 without copyright notice or before 1964 without copyright renewal or before the source country established copyright relations with the United States,
it was in the public domain in its home country ( Poland ) on the URAA date (1 January 1996).

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