What are the Sonderkommando photographs?
Q: What are the Sonderkommando photographs?
A: They are four blurry pictures taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.
Q: Who took the Sonderkommando photographs?
A: A prisoner in Auschwitz II-Birkenau took the photographs.
Q: What was Auschwitz II-Birkenau?
A: It was Auschwitz's extermination camp, where people were sent to be killed in gas chambers.
Q: Who were the Sonderkommando?
A: They were a group of inmates forced to work in and around the gas chambers.
Q: How were the Sonderkommando photographs taken?
A: The photographer had to aim the camera from his hip and was not able to focus it to keep from being caught.
Q: How were the Sonderkommando photographs smuggled out of the camp?
A: The Polish resistance snuck the camera film out in a toothpaste tube.
Q: What do the Sonderkommando photographs show?
A: They show what happened around the gas chambers, including the cremation of dead bodies in a fire pit and a group of naked women just before they went into the gas chamber.
