File:"Canada"Auschwitz.jpg

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Description

The warehouse(s) in Auschwitz nicknamed "Canada," where goods stolen from Jewish deportees were stored before being sent to Germany or used by the SS.

Source

Yad Vashem's Auschwitz Album. http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/181-183b.html

Portion used

All

Low resolution?

Yes

Other information

The Yad Vashem website says:

  • The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process of mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a unique document and was donated to Yad Vashem by Lilly Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier.
  • The photos were taken at the end of May or beginning of June 1944, either by Ernst Hofmann or by Bernhard Walter, two SS men whose task was to take ID photos and fingerprints of the inmates (not of the Jews who were sent directly to the gas chambers) ...
  • The purpose of the album is unclear. It was not intended for propaganda purposes, nor does it have any obvious personal use. One assumes that it was prepared as an official reference for a higher authority, as were photo albums from other concentration camps.
  • Lilly never hid the album and news of its existence was published many times. She was even called to present it as testimony at the Auschwitz trials in Frankfurt during the 1960s. She kept it all the years until the famous Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld visited her in 1980, and convinced her to donate the album to Yad Vashem. http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/home_auschwitz_album.html
Non-free image rationale for Auschwitz concentration camp
Article

Auschwitz concentration camp

Purpose of use

Illustrate warehousing of possessions taken from Jews prior to their gassing.

Replaceable?

Impossible

Non-free image rationale for Rudolf Vrba
Article

Rudolf Vrba

Purpose of use

Illustrate the warehouse where Rudolf Vrba worked in Auschwitz.

Replaceable?

Impossible

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current18:14, 10 September 2006Thumbnail for version as of 18:14, 10 September 2006380×292 (31 KB)SlimVirgin (talk | contribs)({{HistoricPhoto}} The warehouse(s) in Auschwitz nicknamed "Canada," where goods stolen from Jewish deportees were stored before being sent to Germany or used by the SS. Source: Yad Vashem's ''Auschwitz Album''. [http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions)


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