Selection of Hungarian Jews in Birkenau
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- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : black, white ; Ht: 18 cm x W: 13 cm
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
2 images
- Collection
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
- Description Level
- Item
- Material Format
- graphic material
- Physical Description
- Photograph : Paper : black, white ; Ht: 18 cm x W: 13 cm
- Other Title Information
- Documentary Artifact
- Date
- 1944
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Language
- Czech
- Notes
- b&w, outdoor scene. This picture shows two lines of men and women standing between railway tracks and a train. In the foreground, 6 men in military uniform and two men in striped prisoner uniforms are directing those people. There is a car at the end of the longer line and a man in a wheelchair on the left hand side, next to the train. On the other side of the tracks, a crowd of people is standing. This scene represents the arrival and selection of Hungarian Jews in Birkenau. Narrative: This picture is part of the Auschwitz album. The inscription at the back shows that this copy comes from the Czech News Agency (CTK).
- Accession No.
- 2014X.04.02
- Name Access
- Zablow, Lou
- Archival / Genealogical
- Archival Descriptions
- Repository
- Montreal Holocaust Museum
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