Image: Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944 (Auschwitz Album) 1b

Description: "Selection" of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz-II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, May/June 1944, during the final phase of the Holocaust. Jews were sent either to work or to the gas chamber. The photograph is part of the collection known as the Auschwitz Album, which was donated to Yad Vashem by Lili Jacob, a survivor, who found it in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in 1945. See Auschwitz Album, Yad Vashem: "The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau." The collection 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 Auschwitz trial in Poland and the 1963–1965 Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. It is not known when this particular image was first published.
Title: Selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944 (Auschwitz Album) 1b
Credit: Yad Vashem: "Jews undergoing selection on the ramp. Visible in the background is the famous entrance to the camp. Some veteran inmates are helping the new comers."
Author: Unknown photographer from the Auschwitz Erkennungsdienst. Several sources believe the photographer to have been SS officers Ernst Hoffmann or Bernhard Walter, who ran the Erkennungsdienst.
Permission: Yad Vashem regards the Auschwitz Album images as in the public domain, [1] as does the United States Holocaust Museum, citing Yad Vashem. [2] Other images from the Auschwitz Album are on Commons; see Category:Auschwitz Album.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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