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Summary
Description Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944 (Auschwitz Album) 1a.jpg |
"Selection" of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at
Auschwitz II-Birkenau
in German-occupied Poland, around May 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
Auschwitz Album
, Yad Vashem: "The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau." The album was donated to Yad Vashem by Lili Jacob (later Lili Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier), a survivor, who found it in the
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
in 1945. For more images, see
Category:Auschwitz Album
.
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Date | c. May 1944 |
Source | The source of this version is The Daily Beast . Also see Auschwitz Album , Yad Vashem. |
Author | Anonymous photographer from the Auschwitz Erkennungsdienst . Several sources believe the photographer to have been SS officers Ernst Hoffmann or Bernhard Walter, who ran the Erkennungsdienst. |
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