Overview
- Caption
- Detail of the scale model of crematorium II at Auschwitz-Birkenau on display in the permanent exhibition of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The model was sculpted by Mieczyslaw Stobierski based on contemporary documents and the trial testimonies of SS guards.
The detail shows prisoners carrying a body on a stretcher in the crematoria.
This model, which is a recreation of the sculptor's model that has been on display in the State Museum of Auschwitz for many years, was commissioned by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum for placement in the permanent exhibition. - Photographer
- Arnold Kramer
- Date
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1992 January 08
- Locale
- Washington, DC United States
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Published Source
- The Holocaust Museum in Washington - Weinberg, Jeshajahu and Elieli, Rina - Rizzoli - p.13
Keywords & Subjects
- Record last modified:
- 2012-08-08 00:00:00
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