A photograph of Jewish women and children from Hungary who have just arrived at the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center in 1944. They have been separated from the men and teenage boys who arrived with them and are lined up in an area of Birkenau known as "the ramp" before undergoing the selection process. The Nazis murdered most of the women and children pictured here in the gas chambers. An Auschwitz prisoner wearing a striped camp uniform is visible on the right side of the image. He was most likely part of a work detail responsible for facilitating the arrival of deportation transports at Auschwitz.
This photograph is from the Auschwitz Album (also called the “Lili Jacob Album,” after the Holocaust survivor who found it).
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