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Learning about Auschwitz-Birkenau

Jewish deportees in the process of selection. Birkenau, 1944. From the Auschwitz Album
Jewish deportees in the process of selection. Birkenau, 1944. From the Auschwitz Album

Transport arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau (Photo 6)
Transport arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau (Photo 6)

Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, Jews undergoing the selection process on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp".
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, Jews undergoing the selection process on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp".

The people in the background are on their way to Crematorium II, whose building is just visible on the top center of the photo.

Transport arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau. From left to right: Mrs. Tsubs Miller, standing with her three sons and daughter; Bryna Szlomowicz from Tacovo; Bryna stands with her two daughters, all were murdered upon arrival. (Photo 7)
Transport arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau. From left to right: Mrs. Tsubs Miller, standing with her three sons and daughter; Bryna Szlomowicz from Tacovo; Bryna stands with her two daughters, all were murdered upon arrival. (Photo 7)

  1. Yad Vashem Archives O.3-10335.
  2. Yad Vashem Archives 0.3-8181.
  3. Yigal Shachar, Oh Madre (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 2002), pp. 86-87 [Hebrew].
  4. Yehudit Kleiman and Nina Springer-Aharoni (eds.), The Anguish of Liberation, Testimonies from 1954 (Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1995), p. 19. For more sources related to the liberation of Auschwitz, we also suggest that you read the works of Primo Levi (1919-1987), an Italian-Jewish Holocaust survivor and author.
  5. Ibid, p. 45.