A shipment of bedding, partially covered with snow, lies strewn next to an abandoned train in Auschwitz-Birkenau immediately after the liberation.
Overview
- Caption
- A shipment of bedding, partially covered with snow, lies strewn next to an abandoned train in Auschwitz-Birkenau immediately after the liberation.
Original caption: "The shipment of bedding (taken from the prisoners) which did not leave for the Reich." - Date
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January 1945
- Locale
- Auschwitz, [Upper Silesia] Poland
- Variant Locale
- Brzezinka
Birkenau
Auschwitz III
Monowitz
Auschwitz II - Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Mark Chrzanowski
- Event History
- One of a set of 32 still photographs from motion picture film taken by Henryk Makarewicz (of Nova Huta, Poland) who was a film cameraman in the Polish Berling Army when it entered the liberated Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in mid-January 1945. According to a memo written in 1962 by the director of the State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Kazimierz Smolen, soon after the collection was purchased from the photographer, Makarewicz was instructed to film the various sections of the camp, including funeral pyres and crematoria ruins. The cameraman used 24 x 35mm. motion picture film and made the stills from the film at the end of January 1945.
[Source: "Protokol," State Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Syg.F/43-74 (4 April 1962).]
See "Auschwitz Main Camp" in Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos Volume 1 Part A. "Auschwitz"
See Also https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005189.
See Also https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005131.
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Mark ChrzanowskiSource Record ID: Collections: 2006.174
Keywords & Subjects
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- 2004-09-28 00:00:00
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