Image: Selection Birkenau ramp

Description: "Selection" of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at the death camp Auschwitz-II (Birkenau) in Poland during German occupation, May/June 1944. Jews were sent either to work or to the gas chamber. The photograph is part of the collection known as the Auschwitz Album. See Auschwitz Album, Yad Vashem: "The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau." The collection as a whole was first published as The Auschwitz Album in 1980 in the United States, Canada and elsewhere, by the Nazi-hunter Serge Klarsfeld, but individual images had been published before that – for example, during the 1947 Auschwitz trial in Poland and the 1963–1965 Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. It is not known when this particular image was first published.
Title: Selection Birkenau ramp
Credit: Yad Vashem. The album was donated to Yad Vashem by Lili Jacob, a survivor, who found it in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in 1945.
Author: Unknown. Several sources believe the photographer to have been Ernst Hoffmann or Bernhard Walter of the SS
Permission: Yad Vashem regards the Auschwitz Album images as in the public domain, [1] as does the United States Holocaust Museum, citing Yad Vashem. [2] Other images from the Auschwitz Album are on Commons; see Category:Auschwitz Album.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
Attribution Required?: No