File:May 1944 - Jews from Carpathian Ruthenia arrive at Auschwitz-Birkenau.jpg

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Description	English: Jews from Carpathian Ruthenia arrive at Auschwitz, offloaded onto the ramp at Birkenau in close proximity to the gas chambers. The chimneys in the background belong to Crematoria II and III on the left and right respectively, whose structures house subterranean undressing and gassing rooms. The photograph is part of the collection known as the Auschwitz Album. See Auschwitz Album, Yad Vashem: "The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau." The collection as a whole was first published as The Auschwitz Album in 1980 in the United States, Canada and elsewhere, by the Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, but individual images had been published before that – for example, during the 1947 Auschwitz trial in Poland and the 1963–1965 Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. It is not known when this particular image was first published.
Date	May or June 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland
Source	Yad Vashem, USHMM #77221 The album was donated to Yad Vashem by Lili Jacob, a survivor, who found it in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in 1945. Czesław Madajczyk, Polityka III Rzeszy w okupowanej Polsce, Polish Scientific Publishers PWN, 1970, p. 257
Author	Unknown. Several sources believe the photographer to have been Ernst Hoffmann or Bernhard Walter of the SS
Permission (Reusing this file)	Yad Vashem regards the Auschwitz Album images as in the public domain, [1] as does the United States Holocaust Museum, citing Yad Vashem. [2] Other images from the Auschwitz Album are on Commons; see Category:Auschwitz Album.

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