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Birkenau, Poland, May 1944, Jews deemed unfit for work waiting in a grove near gas chamber no. 4 prior to their extermination.

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The grove is located near gas chamber 4.
An album known as "The Auschwitz Album" of photos taken by SS photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau during the arrival of a transport of Hungarian Jews, including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Women pronounced fit for labor standing on the platform after a selection, 05/1944.
Appearing in the photograph: 1. Lili Leah ("Bobo") Yakobovics, nee Mueller, from Tacovo, daughter of Moshe Zwi and Faisel Mueller, wife of Arie Leib Yakobovics. She survived. 2. Sima Mueller, Lili's sister. She perished in the Fallersleben Camp. Another possible identification is Ester Klein from Szilagysomlyo, survived. 3. Rozi Bittman, nee Mueller, Lili and Sima's sister. 4. Elly Gross nee Berkovics from Szilagysomlyo, survived. (self-identification) Another possible identification is Gitza Bistritzer, daughter of Haim and Chaya Smilovics, wife of Ezra Yehuda Leib...
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, 27/05/1944, Jews on the platform after alighting from a train.
Appearing in the photograph are: 1. Renee Klein, aged 12. (USHMM) 2. Hajnal Klein. Renee, Iren, Herczi and Lili's mother. She perished. (USHMM) 3. Iren Klein, aged 7. She perished. (USHMM) 4. Lili Klein, aged 18. Survived. (USHMM) 5. Herczi Klein, aged 15. Survived. (USHMM) 6. Adalbert Avrom Berkovics, aged 5. (Elly Gross nee Berkovics, Iren's daughter) 7. Irina Berkovics nee Farkas, Adalbert's mother, aged 37. (Elly Gross nee Berkovics, Iren's daughter) See also FA 7402, for comparison.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Women inside the women's camp, 05/1944.
Appearing in the photograph: 1. Freda Salomon nee Egri 2. Ester Erszebet Deutsch nee Egri 3. Rozsi Swartz nee Egri 4. Zseni Stern 5. Lili Jacob, survived 6. Magda (Tova) Kadmon nee Roth from Miskolc, she survived and emigrated to Eretz Israel 7. Eva Roth of Miskolc, she perished a few weeks after she arrived in Auschwitz 8. Iren Roth of Miskolc, Magda's mother. Behind the mother, we can not see her but most probably is Anna (Roth) Schenker, survived Most of the members of the Roth family perished upon their arrival to Auschwitz. They arrived...
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Rabbi Leib Weiss and his son Shlomo from the Tacovo Ghetto, standing on the platform, 27/05/1944
The man in the foreground is Rabbi Leib Weiss from the Tacovo Ghetto, behind him is his son Shlomo Weiss. Both perished. Rabbi Leib Weiss was 78 years old when he arrived at the camp. Itzo Einhorn appears to the left.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, "Canada" barrack's inmates arranging groups of women in lines, 27/05/1944.
Appearing in the photograph: 1. SS Oberscharfuhrer Hoecker, he often stood on the platform when transports arrived. 2. Hans Schorr, from Vienna, a communist who fought in the Spanish Civil War. In Auschwitz Concentration Camp he served as a kapo in "Canada" barracks. He was walking around the selection area. He survived. 3. Norbert Lopper, survived. 4. Heini Preiss. A Jewish inmate in the "Canada" barracks. He survived.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, A selection on the platform, 27/05/1944.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, May 1944, Women and children on their way to gas chamber no. 4.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Men pronounced fit for labor on the way to their barracks, 05/1944.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Jewish men standing in line during selection, 27/05/1944.
Appearing in the photograph: 1. Zalman Friedmann from Bilke 2. Meir Berger from Bilke 3. Jacob Berger from Bilke, Meir's brother Standing behind, middle of photo and looking toward the camera was identified as Avraham Yusovich by his grandson Yosef Yusovich The photograph was returned to the album by Elazar Schwimmer
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Women and children from the ghetto on the platform, 05/1944.
Appearing in the photograph: 1. Far left, Mrs. Tsubs Miller, Lili Jacob's aunt, with her four children standing in front of her, three sons and a daughter. 2. The woman in the center of the photograph wearing a dark coat and a dark headscarf is Bryna Szlomowicz, daughter of Benjamin Szmilovitz and Rachel nee Gutman. Bryna is the wife of Hannia Yom Tov Lipa Szlomowicz from Tacovo. Bryna appears with her daughters, with the light colored hats. They all perished in Birkenau.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Women standing aside for trucks that are filled with confiscated personal belongings on the way to "Canada" warehouse, 05/1944
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, The unloading of personal belongings from a train, 27/05/1944.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Jewish inmates sorting personal belongings the deportees brought with them, 05/1944.
Appearing on the right of the photograph is Chaim Rephael from Saloniki, Greece, in camp uniform and holding with both his hands a white sack.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Unloading personal belongings from trucks next to the "Canada" barracks, 05/1944.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Men pronounced fit for labor standing on the platform after a selection, 05/1944.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Dora, Germany, The crematorium in the labor camp.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, May 1944, Jews waiting in a grove near gas chamber no. 4 prior to their extermination.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, A group of elderly men prior to being taken to the gas chambers, 05/1944.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Two Jews who were photographed in the photography laboratory in barrack no. 26 of the main camp, 26/5/1944.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Jewish women and children in front of Crematorium III on their way to Crematorium II, 05/1944.
Appearing in the photograph: 1. Iboja Hoffman from Budrogkeresztur 2. Lena Egri, from Budrogkeresztur, aunt of Iboja 3. Ruth Hoffman, from Budrogkeresztur, sister of Iboja 4. Malwin Hoffman, mother of Iboja and Ruth, Lena's sister 5. Piroska Szas from Tokaj, sister of Lena and Malwin 6. Daughter of Piroska 7. Karcsi Szaz, son of Piroska
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Jewish men standing in lines waiting for the selection to begin, 27/05/1944.
Second from left: Mr. Zicherman
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, "Canada" barrack inmates near confiscated belongings, 05/1944.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Jewish men from the Tet Ghetto standing on the platform, 05/1944.
Appearing in the photograph: 1. Mano Goldstein of Diosgyor. Feigi Adler (Glozer) argued in 2014 that the man is her father Samson Glazer from Sigget. 2. Czin (Yitzchak) Ignac of Diosgyor They were deported from the Miskolc Ghetto, north Hungary 3. Israel Orenstein of Tacovo, survived
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, "Canada" barrack inmates starting the initial sorting on a blanket spread on the ground, 05/1944.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, May 1944, Men deemed unfit for work on their way to gas chamber 4.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, May 1944, Men deemed unfit for work, waiting.
The man standing on the left is Rabbi Mordechai Shimon, son of Rabbi Nachmun Zeev Yadushka, born in Monasterzyska, Galicia. Additional photographs can been seen at: FA 268/103 and FA 268/102.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Jews on the platform, after alighting from a train, 27/05/1944.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Inmates heading towards the barracks, 27/05/1944.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Jews putting the belongings they brought with them on the platform after disembarking from the train, 27/05/1944.
Sidi Mueller appears to the left. She is wearing a light coat with a prominant yellow badge, and a headscarf.
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
Birkenau, Poland, Female inmates on the way to the barracks after being processed, 05/1944.
In the photograph are: 1. Martha Younger, nee Birnbaum from Szolyva, survived 2. Dora Birnbaum, Martha and Erna's mother 3. Erna Gottesman, nee Birnbaum, survived 4. Gina Liebermann, survived Or possibly Etush (Esther) Moses, nee Zelmanovic 5. Agi Rubind, nee Katz 6. Minion Bretzholz, nee Gottesman, survived 7. Maidi Birnbaum, survived 8. Rozi Feldman
Archival Signature : 4522
Credit : Public Domain
Related Album : An Album Known As "the Auschwitz Album" of Photos Taken By SS Photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau During the Arrival of a Transport of Hungarian Jews, Including on 26/5/1944.
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An album known as "The Auschwitz Album" of photos taken by SS photographers in Auschwitz-Birkenau during the arrival of a transport of Hungarian Jews, including on 26/5/1944.
Archival Signature
4522
Name of Submitter
Lili Jacob
Source
Lili Jacob
Credit
Public Domain
Place
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Birkenau,Extermination Camp,Poland
Photographer
SS photographers E. Hoffmann & B. Walter
Date of Accession
18/02/1994
Type of material
Photograph
Album Number
FA268/134
Subjects
Badge of Shame
Women
Children
Elderly
Camps