Survivors attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial to the dead in Birkenau during the U.S. Holocaust Commission fact-finding trip to Europe in the summer of 1979.

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: N05397

Overview

Caption: Survivors attend a wreath-laying ceremony at the memorial to the dead in Birkenau during the U.S. Holocaust Commission fact-finding trip to Europe in the summer of 1979.

Among those pictured are Elie Wiesel (center) and Hadassah Rosensaft (third from the right).
Date: 1979 July 31
Locale: Auschwitz, [Upper Silesia] Poland
Variant Locale: Brzezinka
Birkenau
Auschwitz III
Monowitz
Auschwitz II
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Keyword: AUSCHWITZ/BIRKENAU CEREMONIES (USHMM) GHETTOS/GHETTO SITES LERMAN, CHRIS ROSENSAFT, HADASSAH BIMKO SIGNS/BANNERS STROCHLITZ, SIGMUND SURVIVORS US HOLOCAUST COMMISSION WIESEL, ELIE WREATHS
Photo Designation: INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL/EVENTS -- Europe -- Poland