![Cremation of corpses at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This photograph was taken clandestinely by prisoners in the Sonderkommando. [LCID: 1821]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/0738539d-93fc-496d-bc63-99b7cc7a8fe5.jpg)
Cremation of corpses at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This photograph was taken clandestinely by prisoners in the Sonderkommando. Poland, summer 1944.
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