Pictorial DOCUMENTATION

DThe following three photographs were taken in Auschwitz secretly. They are the only existing shots which prisoners themselves took. In order to take these pictures, a film had to be smuggled into the camp, the prints taken under life-risk and then brought out of the camp again. Furthermore, a camera had to be organised. This form of resistance brought together Polish political prisoners and members of the Sonderkommandos (special commando).

Jewish women who are driven to the gas chamber and crematorium V

The following two shots show Jewish inmates of the "Sonderkommando" burning the corpses.