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
Sonderkommando
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Sonderkommandos were work units made up of German Nazi death camp prisoners. They were composed of prisoners, usually Jews, who were forced, on threat of their own deaths, to aid with the disposal of
Sonderkommando photographs
…the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex. Usually named only as Alex, a Jewish prisoner from 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…
Crematorium at Dachau, May 1945 (photo taken after liberation)
Sonderkommando in Auschwitz-Birkenau, August 1944 (clandestine photo)