File:Selection Birkenau ramp.jpg
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"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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_Album" class="extiw" title="en:Auschwitz Album">Auschwitz Album</a>. See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/">Auschwitz Album</a>, 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_trial" class="extiw" title="en:Auschwitz trial">Auschwitz trial</a> in Poland and the 1963–1965 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Auschwitz_trials" class="extiw" title="en:Frankfurt Auschwitz trials">Frankfurt Auschwitz trials</a>. It is not known when this particular image was first published.
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current | 06:49, 22 December 2016 | 897 × 639 (242 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | "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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_Album" class="extiw" title="en:Auschwitz Album">Auschwitz Album</a>. See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/">Auschwitz Album</a>, 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 <i>The Auschwitz Album</i> 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 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_trial" class="extiw" title="en:Auschwitz trial">Auschwitz trial</a> in Poland and the 1963–1965 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Auschwitz_trials" class="extiw" title="en:Frankfurt Auschwitz trials">Frankfurt Auschwitz trials</a>. It is not known when this particular image was first published. |
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