Portraits: the last transport from the Bedzin-Sosnowiec Ghetto, 1943

When Jews were deported they were ordered to bring with them items needed for a new life, and amongst other things, were photographs they could not leave behind. The photos were saved by the directive of David Szmulewicz who was a leader of the Jewish underground at Auschwitz-Birkenau. In 1945 when the liberating army arrived, there was someone among the weak and dying Jews who knew about the photos, both their existence and their location