Cremation of corpses at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This photograph was taken clandestinely by prisoners in the Sonderkommando. [LCID: 1821]
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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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Auschwitz occupied Poland camps crematoria
  • National Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau

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