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English: Cropped from one of four photographs taken inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, part of a series known as the Sonderkommando photographs. This photograph, number 280, shows bodies waiting to be burned in an outdoor fire pit near crematorium V in Auschwitz II-Birkenau.
Deutsch: Häftlinge des Sonderkommandos in Auschwitz beim Verbrennen von Leichen. Heimlich aufgenommenes Foto des Widerstandes – wahrscheinlich von „Alex“, einem jüdisch-griechischen Häftling des Sonderkommandos.
Кыргызча: 1944-жылы август айы. Жашыруун кылынган сүрөт. Зондеркомандалардын мүчөлөрү газ менен өлтүрүлгөн Освенцимдин туткундарын өрттөп жатышат. Сүрөт бешинчи крематорийдин ачык эшигинен зондеркоманданын мүчөсү (мажбурланган) — грецияциялык еврей, нацисттерге каршы кыймылынын мүчөсү Альберто Эррера тарабынан кылынган. Сүрөт кесилген (крематорийдин караңгылыгы алынды). Жалпысынан 4 сүрөт кылынган. Автор 1944-жылдын августунда качууга аракет кылып жатканда атылып өлтүрүлгөн.
Русский: Члены зондеркоманды сжигают тела убитых газом заключенных Освенцима. Фотография сделана членом зондеркоманды евреем из Греции Альберто «Алексом» Эррерой через двери крематория. Всего было сделано 4 снимка. Автор был застрелен при попытке побега в сентябре 1944 года.
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Source First published in Stanislaw Wrzos-Glinka, Tadeusz Mazur and Jerzy Tomaszewski, 1939–1945: Cierpienie i walka narodu polskiego, Zarząd Główny Związku Bojowników o Wolność i Demokrację, Warsaw, 1958, p. 80. Also see here and Auschwitz-Birkenau museum: [1] [2] [3] [4]
Author A member of the Sonderkommando from Greece, often named as Alberto Errera (or Albert, Alex, Aleko or Alekos), a Greek army or naval officer who died in Auschwitz in 1944.

For Errera’s death, see Gideon Graif, We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz, Yale University Press, 2005, p. 375; Steven Bowman, The Agony of Greek Jews, 1940–1945, Stanford University Press, 2009, p. 95; Shlomo Venezia, Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz, John Wiley & Sons, 2013, p. 90ff.
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This photograph is in the public domain because according to the Art. 3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland, all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed to be in the public domain in Poland.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it meets three requirements:

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  2. it was first published before 1 March 1989 without copyright notice or before 1964 without copyright renewal or before the source country established copyright relations with the United States,
  3. it was in the public domain in its home country (Poland) on the URAA date (1 January 1996).
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Members of the Sonderkommando in Auschwitz burning corpses.

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