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English: One of four photographs from Auschwitz-Birkenau in Nazi-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.

Date Taken in August 1944
Source A cropped version was first published in Stanislaw Wrzos-Glinka, Tadeusz Mazur and Jerzy Tomaszewski, 1939–1945: Cierpienie i walka narodu polskiego, Warsaw, 1958. Also see here.
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.

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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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current14:09, 31 August 2019Thumbnail for version as of 14:09, 31 August 2019415 × 544 (26 KB)BevinKaconReverted to version as of 18:28, 5 December 2009 (UTC) destructive overwrite crop, black & damage is part of the photo
22:46, 10 April 2013Thumbnail for version as of 22:46, 10 April 2013352 × 496 (18 KB)Ras67losslessly cropped with Jpegcrop
18:28, 5 December 2009Thumbnail for version as of 18:28, 5 December 2009415 × 544 (26 KB)Pieter Kuiper{{Information |Description={{en|1=Photographs from Birkenau — people who have been gassed. The photograph shows a heap of bodies piled outdoors. Bodies were burned outdoors when the crematorium could not keep pace with the number of bodies to be burned

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