Auschwitz Resistance 280

Författare/Upphovsman:

Alex, Aleko or Alekos, a member of the Sonderkommando from Greece, often named as Albert, Alex or Alberto 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.

Kreditera:

Origin of this file: Dr. Piotr Setkiewicz, Head of Archives, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum;
published by Judith Lermer Crawley, 14 April 2005. A cropped version was published in Stanislaw Wrzos-Glinka, Tadeusz Mazur and Jerzy Tomaszewski, 1939–1945: Cierpienie i walka narodu polskiego, Warsaw, 1958. See File:Auschwitz Resistance 280 cropped.jpg and here.

Kort länk:

https://sewiki.info/b/13fcc

Källa:

Wikimedia Commons

Upplösning:

419 x 550 Pixel (29608 Bytes)

Beskrivning:

One of four photographs from Auschwitz-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, part of a series known as the Sonderkommando photographs.

The photograph shows bodies waiting to be burned. Bodies were burned in outdoor fire pits when the crematoria were full.

Licens:

Public domain

Licenskommentaren:

This photograph is in the public domain because according to the Art. 3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland, all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed to be in the public domain in Poland.

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