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The images were taken within 15–30 minutes of each other by an inmate inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex. Usually named only as Alex, a Jewish prisoner from Greece, the photographer was a member of the Sonderkommando, inmates forced to work in and around the gas chambers.
Auschwitz. Konzentrationslager Auschwitz (German) Nazi concentrationand extermination camp(1940–1945) Top:Gate to Auschwitz I with its Arbeit macht freisign ("work sets you free") Bottom:Auschwitz II-Birkenau gatehouse. The train track, in operation from May to October 1944, led toward the gas chambers.
Camp David is a 125-acre (51 ha) country retreat for the president of the United States.It is located in the wooded hills of Catoctin Mountain Park, in Frederick County, Maryland, near the towns of Thurmont and Emmitsburg, about 62 miles (100 km) north-northwest of the national capital city of Washington, D.C. [1] [2] [3] It is code named Naval Support Facility Thurmont.
Keith Rupert Murdoch AC KCSG (/ ˈ m ɜːr d ɒ k / MUR-dok; born 11 March 1931) is an Australian-born American business magnate, investor, and media proprietor. [2] [3] Through his company News Corp, he is the owner of hundreds of local, national, and international publishing outlets around the world, including in the UK (The Sun and The Times), in Australia (The Daily Telegraph, Herald Sun ...
The Guantanamo Bay detention camp[ note 1] is a United States military prison within Naval Station Guantanamo Bay ( NSGB ), also called GTMO (pronounced Gitmo /ˈɡɪtmoʊ/ GIT-moh) on the coast of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. It was established in January 2002 by U.S. President George W. Bush to hold terrorism suspects and "illegal enemy combatants ...
Prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp after their liberation by the Red Army, January 1945. On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz—a Nazi concentration camp and extermination camp in occupied Poland where more than a million people were murdered as part of the Nazis' "Final Solution" to the Jewish question—was liberated by the Soviet Red Army during the Vistula–Oder Offensive.
Bodies waiting to be burned outdoors in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Taken in secret by a team of Sonderkommando workers in August 1944 and later smuggled out to the Polish resistance. Many photographs of the Holocaust are taken by unidentified authors, but others are known. Nazi German photographers of the Holocaust who acted in their official capacity ...
Dachau was the concentration camp that was in operation the longest, from March 1933 to April 1945, nearly all twelve years of the Nazi regime. Dachau's close proximity to Munich, where Hitler came to power and where the Nazi Party had its official headquarters, made Dachau a convenient location.