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English: Cropped and retouched from one of four photographs from Auschwitz-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, part of a series known as the Sonderkommando photographs . This photograph, number 281, shows bodies waiting to be burned in an outdoor fire pit. See also: The same photograph before retouch, hosted by HolocaustResearchProject.org.
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Source First published in Stanislaw Wrzos-Glinka, Tadeusz Mazur and Jerzy Tomaszewski, 1939–1945: Cierpienie i walka narodu polskiego , Zarząd Główny Związku Bojowników o Wolność i Demokrację, Warsaw, 1958. Also see here and Auschwitz-Birkenau museum: [1] [2] [3] [4]
Author Alex, Aleko or Alekos, a member of the Sonderkommando from Greece, often named as Alberto, Albert or Alex 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.

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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.
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