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Description One of the four en:Sonderkommando photographs taken by an inmate inside Auschwitz, August 1944, and smuggled out of the camp by the Polish underground. This is photograph number 283 of four photographs (#280–283). See Category:Auschwitz resistance photos. The other three images in the series were published in Poland in the 1950s, and are in the public domain, but it appears that this image was not found until later. Date of first publication not known.
Date Taken in August 1944
Source

Jean-Claude Pressac, Auschwitz: Technique and Operation of the Gas Chambers, Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1989, p. 422.

Also in Dan Stone, "The Sonderkommando Photographs", Jewish Social Studies, 7(3), Spring/Summer 2001, (pp. 132–148), p. 136. Also here and here.

The author was Alex, Aleko or Alekos, a member of the Sonderkommando from Greece, often named as Alberto, Albert or Alex Errera, a Greek army or naval officer who died in Auschwitz in 1944.

For Errera's death, see Gideon Graif, We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz, Yale University Press, 2005, p. 375; Steven Bowman, The Agony of Greek Jews, 1940–1945, Stanford University Press, 2009, p. 95; Shlomo Venezia, Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz, John Wiley & Sons, 2013, p. 90ff.

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This photograph is in the public domain because according to the Art. 3 of copyright law of March 29, 1926 of the Republic of Poland and Art. 2 of copyright law of July 10, 1952 of the People's Republic of Poland, all photographs by Polish photographers (or published for the first time in Poland or simultaneously in Poland and abroad) published without a clear copyright notice before the law was changed on May 23, 1994 are assumed to be in the public domain in Poland.
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