English: Cropped and retouched from one of four photographs from Auschwitz-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, part of a series known as the
Sonderkommando photographs. This photograph, number 281, shows bodies waiting to be burned in an outdoor fire pit. See also: The same photograph before retouch, hosted by
HolocaustResearchProject.org.
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. Also see
here and Auschwitz-Birkenau museum:
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Author
Alex, Aleko or Alekos, a member of the Sonderkommando from Greece, often named as Alberto, Albert or Alex Errera, 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.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it meets three requirements:
it was first
published outside the United States (and not published in the U.S. within 30 days),
it was first published before 1 March 1989 without copyright notice or before 1964 without copyright renewal or before the source country established
copyright relations with the United States,
it was in the public domain in its home country (
Poland) on the
URAA date (1 January 1996).
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