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Français : Georges Didi-Huberman: “En août 1944, les membres du Sonderkommando d’Auschwitz-Birkenau réussirent à photographier clandestinement le processus d’extermination au cœur duquel ils se trouvaient prisonniers. Quatre photographies nous restent de ce moment…”
English: Cropped from one of four photographs from Auschwitz-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, part of a series known as the Sonderkommando photographs. The photograph shows naked women being taken to the gas chamber.
Deutsch: Ausschnitt aus einem von vier Fotos aus dem Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau im deutsch besetzten Polen. Teil einer Reihe, die als Fotografien des Sonderkommandos bekannt wurden. Die Abbildung zeigt Frauen auf dem Weg in die Gaskammer.
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Source First published in Stanislaw Wrzos-Glinka, Tadeusz Mazur and Jerzy Tomaszewski, 1939–1945: Cierpienie i walka narodu polskiego, Zarząd Główny Związku Bojowników o Wolność i Demokrację, Warsaw, 1958, p. 74. Also see here.
Author 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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  2. it was first published before 1 March 1989 without copyright notice or before 1964 without copyright renewal or before the source country established copyright relations with the United States,
  3. it was in the public domain in its home country (Poland) on the URAA date (1 January 1996).
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