Train loads of new arrivals in Auschwitz

An SS guard has just sent the woman
with the infant to join those being sent to
the crematorium; her hair is covered in the
tradition of the Orthodox Jewish wife.
A man is standing at the right of the photograph
without his pants and one shoe; this was a common occurrence
in the overcrowded boxcars.
On the left stand inmates in striped camp clothing.
The main gate to Birkenau camp under which the trains
pass is at the rear left of the photograph. 







                                   Women after the selection                         

Nobel Peace Prize winner Eli Wiesel
among the inmates in Buchenwald
                                   

       
The visual evidence and the verbal testimony 
  of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were...
overpowering... I made the visit deliberately in order 
to be in a position to give first-hand evidence 
of these things if ever, in the future, 
there develops a tendency to charge these 
allegations merely to 'propaganda.' Source:
General Dwight D. Eisenhower's 
letter to General George C. Marshall 
dated April 15, 1945

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