MAKE A MEME View Large Image Selection Birkenau ramp.jpg Selection of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at the death camp Auschwitz-II Birkenau in Poland during German occupation May/June 1944 Jews were sent either to work or to the gas chamber The photograph is part of the ...
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Keywords: Selection Birkenau ramp.jpg Selection of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at the death camp Auschwitz-II Birkenau in Poland during German occupation May/June 1944 Jews were sent either to work or to the gas chamber The photograph is part of the collection known as the Auschwitz Album See http //www yadvashem org/yv/en/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/ Auschwitz Album Yad Vashem The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau The collection as a whole was first published as The Auschwitz Album in 1980 in the United States Canada and elsewhere by the Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld but individual images had been published before that “ for example during the 1947 Auschwitz trial in Poland and the 1963 “1965 Frankfurt Auschwitz trials It is not known when this particular image was first published http //www yadvashem org/yv/en/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/photo_14 asp Yad Vashem The album was donated to Yad Vashem by Lili Jacob a survivor who found it in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in 1945 May or June 1944 Auschwitz-Birkenau Poland Unknown Several sources believe the photographer to have been Ernst Hoffmann or Bernhard Walter of the SS Yad Vashem regards the Auschwitz Album images as in the public domain http //collections1 yadvashem org/notebook asp lang ENG dlang ENG module notebook page notebook rsvr tables tables param 3Cdlang 3EENG 3C/ 3E 3Cnob 3E14 3C/ 3E 3Cstart_entry 3E1 3C/ 3E 3Crsvr_id 3E7 3C/ 3E 3Clang_id 3EENG 3C/ 3E 3Cquantity 3E15 3C/ 3E 3Cvalue 3Epublic 20domain 3C/ 3E 3Cindex_name 3ECPWRT 3C/ 3E 3Ccollector 3E0 3C/ 3E 3Clif 3ECPWRT 3C/ 3E 3Crsvr_ser 3E 7 3C/ 3E 3Cnum_page 3Emain 3C/ 3E 3Cbook_id 3E97836 3C/ 3E 3Cbblink 3E1 3C/ 3E 3Cquery_name 3Ejaguar51_2684_778251 3C/ 3E 3Cpitem 3E97836 103119 3C/ 3E 3Cchecktab 3E0 3C/ 3E 3Ccur_lang 3EENG 3C/ 3E param2 site sapir as does the United States Holocaust Museum citing Yad Vashem http //www ushmm org/learn/timeline-of-events/1942-1945/deportation-of-hungarian-jews Other images from the Auschwitz Album are on Commons; see Category Auschwitz Album File Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau summer 1944 Auschwitz Album jpg PD-EU-anonymous Auschwitz Album Selection ramp Auschwitz II Birkenau
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