Номер объектаM2009/117:001
ОписаниеNewspaper cutting from the Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters, Poland, circa 1965. The cutting is of an article written by Erich Kulka titled: “Poznali Sue Vrahy” (“They Recognized Their Murderers”). It describes Nazi atrocities and features a photograph of female prisoners working in ‘Kanada’ sorting possessions confiscated from a transport of Jews from the Subcarpathian Rus in the warehouse in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The photograph comes from the 'Auschwitz Album' which documents the arrival, selection and processing of one or more transports of Jews from the Subcarpathian Rus (Carpatho-Ukraine), then part of Hungary, that came to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the latter half of May 1944. The young woman in the right hand corner is Margaret Odze (nee Brennerova). The photograph is part of the series titled “Resettlement of Jews from Hungary”, taken by the SS, and later used as evidence in identifying perpetrators of Nazi atrocities and bringing them to justice.
The photograph comes from the 'Auschwitz Album' which documents the arrival, selection and processing of one or more transports of Jews from the Subcarpathian Rus (Carpatho-Ukraine), then part of Hungary, that came to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the latter half of May 1944. The young woman in the right hand corner is Margaret Odze (nee Brennerova). The photograph is part of the series titled “Resettlement of Jews from Hungary”, taken by the SS, and later used as evidence in identifying perpetrators of Nazi atrocities and bringing them to justice.
Дата circa 1965
Темаtattoos (skin), concentration camps, persecution, nazi persecution, Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp
Наименованиеarticles
Материалpaper
Техникаprinted
Размерность
- length: 212.00 mm
width: 240.00 mm
Язык
- Polish Undated Newspaper cutting
Donated by Margaret Odze (nee Brennerova)
Written by Erich Kulka, c1965, in a newspaper issued by the Union of anti-Fascist fighters
Language: Czech
Translated by Peter Rossler, Holocaust Survivor
Title of article: They recognized their murderers
In spring of 1944, prisoners under the supervision of SS completed the rail extension from Station Auschwitz to the extermination camp Birkenau. The 3 km long railway line ended in close proximity to the gas chambers. The female and male camps were separated from the sorting ramp by only a barbed wire fence. Transports were arriving constantly day and night. Sirens of the locomotives were announcing the arrival of new trains from Eichman’s Action - resettlement of the Jews from Austria. The death factory was working full steam. SS were executing the selection in front of the eyes of prisoners of neighboring camps. Photographs were taken by the SS man of arriving transports. The series of 203 photos records all phases of special treatment from the arrival of trains to the arrival of woman and children for the promised ‘bath’; the photos from the album of an unknown SS were left undiscovered in the archive for many years.
Scenes recorded from the ramp of death. The first page of the album is headed ‘Resettlement of Jews from Hungary’. The uninitiated at first does not realize anything shattering; arrivals don’t realize they only have hours to live; SS were smiling benignly; mothers were willingly showing off their children; the old man is trustingly looking at the murder doctor and a group of women with children is waiting for the promised ‘bath’. In the whole series of photographs from the yard to the undressing halls, there is not one photograph that shows the final phase (ie gas chambers).
The SS man’s camera caught the work of prisoners in the camp ‘Kanada’ who were sorting possessions. Libuse Bredorova who examined the photos, says, “it was the spring of 1944; the leading SS who was supervising the sorting of the possessions of the deported and gassed people instructed us, soon another shift will come and will photograph; girls make yourself beautiful and smile. And this is one of the photos on which I am and Adela Weinbergerova from Ruzomberoku”. Similar testimonies were given by 14 other Auschwitz comrades. The ‘alibi’ story of ‘resettling’ becomes into a photographic document of the last phase of the Final Solution. On the photo, there were identified 10 Auschwitz SS which were caught at the moment when they were sending the deportees to death. Photos that were meant to cover up the Nazi deception about resettlement, are after 20 years condemning the authors of the photographs.
A hidden document “Secret Reich’s Affair” will be an important witness about the mass murder in Auschwitz in which all the accused SS took part in the Frankfurt Trial.
Photo Caption: SS photographs of the sorting in the warehouse of possessions/belongings of those executed in camp Auschwitz: (left) I. Kleinova from Kosice; (right) H. Citronova from Humenneho; (middle) M. Brennerova
Кредитная линияSydney Jewish Museum Collection, Donated by Margaret Odze