Auschwitz_Resistance_281_cropped.jpg
Description Auschwitz Resistance 281 cropped.jpg |
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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