Title

Pile of pairs of spectacles, Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland, 20th century. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Pile of pairs of spectacles, Auschwitz concentration camp, Poland, 20th century. Dozens of pairs of spectacles removed from the victims of the gas chambers. The most notorious of the Nazi concentration camps, Auschwitz, situated near the Polish town of Oswiecim, opened in 1940. There were in fact three separate main camps and a network of satellite camps, which became the focal point of the Final Solution, the industrial-scale extermination of the Jewish population of Europe. By the time Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army in January 1945, an estimated 1.1 million prisoners, mainly Jews, Poles, Roma gypsies and Soviet soldiers, had been killed there by the Nazis.

Date

1939

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Keystone Archives

Reference

HRM19D84_177

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

48,5Mb (1,9Mb) / 15,4in x 12,2in / 4624 x 3664 (300dpi)

Keywords

Germany glasses German country law spectacles crime Poland death pile war location century camp murder horror concept killing evil B&W 1940s slaughter MONOCHROME concentration camp Forties World War II World War two extermination WWII Nazi black & white black and white B W world war 2 Holocaust 20th century atrocity genocide Nazis Nazism war crime decade extermination camp murdering Second World War slaughtering TGN WW2 photograph Auschwitz Oswiecim Keystone Archives 2nd World War Unknown photograph