A pile of victims burns in the middle of a fenced in clearing surrounded by trees. Several people stand in the pile and move bodies. There is a large cloud of smoke rising from the pile.
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Cremation of corpses at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Cremation of corpses at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This photograph was taken clandestinely by prisoners in the Sonderkommando. Poland, summer 1944.


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