Sonderkommando photographs
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The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Along with a few photographs in the Auschwi
No. 280, framed by the gas chamber's doorway or window
No. 280 cropped
No. 281
No. 281 cropped and retouched
Alberto Errera
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Alberto Israel Errera was a Greek-Jewish officer and a member of the anti-Nazi resistance. He was a member of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau from May to August 1944.
Sonderkommando photographs
…Greece, the photographer was a member of the Sonderkommando, inmates forced to work in and around the gas chambers. Several sources identified him as Alberto Errera, a Greek military officer. He took two shots from inside one of the gas chambers and two outside, shooting from the hip, unable to aim the camera with…
Photograph of Alberto Errera from the collection of the Jewish Museum of Greece
No. 283 Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau, August 1944 (clandestine photo) Picture pointed too high
No 282 Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau, August 1944 (clandestine photo) Women being undressed before going into Gas Chambers