Jewish bodies are incinerated by Sonderkommando at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland in August 1944. When the crematorium's incinerator could not keep up with the workload of body disposal, a depression in the fenced area was used to incinerate the corpses. Having to hide inside the crematorium building, we had to hastily shoot through doorways and windows. This caused blurring and distorted angles. To take the picture, I had to hide inside the crematorium building and hastily shoot through the door cracks and windows. The black edges of the image were cropped and the position and shooting conditions were removed.
The Sonderkommando photos were taken in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland, where four blurred photos were secretly taken. Along with several photographs in the Auschwitz Album, these are the only photographs of the events around the gas chambers. When the crematorium could not incinerate the bodies, they were burned. He immediately took out his camera, pointed it at the pile of burning corpses, and pressed the shutter .
The photographer was a member of the Sonderkommando, the inmates who were forced to work in and around the gas chambers. Immediately after taking the picture, the photographer, Alberto Herrera, buried the camera in the soil of the camp. Shortly thereafter, he escaped, was arrested, tortured, and murdered. Later, Polish resistance fighters smuggled the film out of the concentration camp in toothpaste tubes. The note on the photograph was dated September 4, 1944.
Sonderkommando was a working unit composed of prisoners from Nazi Germany's concentration camps. The Sonderkommando's main task was to dispose of the corpses. In accordance with SS policy, every three months, almost all Sonderkommando working in the killing areas of concentration camps were gassed and replaced by new arrivals to ensure confidentiality.
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