View of one of the destroyed crematoria at Auschwitz-Birkenau immediately after the liberation.

Photograph | Photograph Number: 58410

Date: January 1945
Locale: Auschwitz, [Upper Silesia] Poland
Variant Locale: Brzezinka
Birkenau
Auschwitz III
Monowitz
Auschwitz II
Photo Designation: KILLING CENTERS -- Auschwitz -- LIBERATION -- Views -- General
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.
Keyword: AUSCHWITZ
BIRKENAU
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
CREMATORIA
DESTRUCTION/VANDALISM
KILLING CENTERS
RUINS/RUBBLE
WINTER SCENES
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Mark Chrzanowski

Source Record ID: Collections: 2006.174
: Record last modified: 2003-07-21 00:00:00
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