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Description: Members of the Sonderkommando burning corpses on fyres in pits in 1944. Auschwitz II-Birkenau, photographer unknown. This is one of the famous Sonderkommando photographs taken illegally by Auschwitz prisoners. The Sonderkommando were special squads composed of Jewish inmates and Russian prisoners who were forced to work in and around the gas chambers and crematoria in the summer of 1944. The photographs were taken in secret by the Sonderkommando and smuggled out of the camp by the Polish underground.

More information: Stone, Dan. "The Sonderkommando Photographs," Jewish Social Studies. Volume 7, Number 3, Spring/Summer 2001 (New Series), pp. 132-148.

Source of this image: Auschwitz-Birkenau museum, accessed January 27, 2010. It is also on the Commons, because PD in Poland, as Commons:File:Auschwitz Resistance 280 cropped.jpg

Related images: http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/images/des%20greek%20jewry%20photo%203.jpg

Rationale for use in The Holocaust

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

  1. It is a historically significant photograph of Auschwitz-Birkenau during The Holocaust.
  2. Because the image depicts a non-reproducible historic event, there is no free equivalent.
  3. It is likely to be of lower resolution than the original.
  4. It has no commercial value.
  5. The photo is being used for informational purposes in an article about the context within which the event took place.

Rationale for use in Night (book)

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

  1. It is a historically significant photograph of Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the concentration camps depicted in Night (book), and a description of a firepit like this one is one of the most notable parts of the book.
  2. Because the image depicts a non-reproducible historic event, there is no free equivalent.
  3. It is likely to be of lower resolution than the original.
  4. It has no monetary value that would be affected by our use of it.
  5. The photo is being used for informational purposes in an article about a book that describes a situation such as the one depicted.
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