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Alex, Aleko, Alekos, Albert or Alberto Errera (1913-1944)
1944, August
No. 281, Members of the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz burning bodies.
[Sonderkommando photographs.]

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The photograph shows bodies waiting to be burned. Bodies were burned in outdoor fire pits when the crematoria were full.
 
A cropped version was published in Stanislaw Wrzos-Glinka, Tadeusz Mazur and Jerzy Tomaszewski, 1939–1945: Cierpienie i walka narodu polskiego, Warsaw, 1958
 
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