Auschwitz_Resistance_280_cropped.jpg

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English: Cropped from one of four photographs taken inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland , part of a series known as the Sonderkommando photographs . This photograph, number 280, shows bodies waiting to be burned in an outdoor fire pit near crematorium V in Auschwitz II-Birkenau .
Deutsch: Häftlinge des Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz beim Verbrennen von Leichen. Heimlich aufgenommenes Foto des Widerstandes - wahrscheinlich von "Alex", einem jüdisch-griechischen Häftling des Sonderkommandos.
Кыргызча: 1944-жылы август айы. Жашыруун кылынган сүрөт. Зондеркомандалардын мүчөлөрү газ менен өлтүрүлгөн Освенцимдин туткундарын өрттөп жатышат. Сүрөт бешинчи крематорийдин ачык эшигинен зондеркоманданын мүчөсү (мажбурланган) — грецияциялык еврей, нацисттерге каршы кыймылынын мүчөсү Альберто Эррера тарабынан кылынган. Сүрөт кесилген (крематорийдин караңгылыгы алынды). Жалпысынан 4 сүрөт кылынган. Автор 1944-жылдын августунда качууга аракет кылып жатканда атылып өлтүрүлгөн.
Русский: Члены зондеркоманды сжигают тела убитых газом заключенных Освенцима. Фотография сделана членом зондеркоманды евреем из Греции Альберто «Алексом» Эррерой через двери крематория. Всего было сделано 4 снимка. Автор был застрелян при попытке побега в сентябре 1944 года.
Date
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, p. 80. Also see here and Auschwitz-Birkenau museum: [1] [2] [3] [4]
Author A member of the Sonderkommando from Greece, often named as Alberto Errera (or Albert, Alex, Aleko or Alekos), 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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Presos de la orden especial de Auschwitz que queman a los incinerados.

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