Auschwitz (1945)

Liberated prisoners with their belongings walk along the fence of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

Liberated prisoners of the concentration camp.

Faces of prisoners behind barbed wire.

Panorama of the Auschwitz concentration camp (top).

Barracks of the camp.

The face of an elderly prisoner lying on a bunk.

Views of the Auschwitz concentration camp (top).

General plan of the camp.

Plan of the crematorium and drawings of the ovens.

Panorama of a part of the camp (top).

Drawing of a barrack.

Female prisoners in one of the barracks.

The face of one of the women.

The inscription "Work makes you free" in German above the camp gate.

View of a part of the camp fence.

View of the control panel of the electrical voltage regulator and signaling system.

Views of parts of the camp fence.

Female prisoners in a barrack on bunks.

Faces of elderly prisoners.

Women lying on bunks.

Photographs of prisoners from the camp archive.

Prisoners behind barbed wire.

The face of a freed prisoner telling about life in the camp.

The corpses of murdered prisoners.

A woman and a girl stand among the corpses by the wall of a barrack.

A woman and a girl walk through the camp grounds.

Freed prisoners walk by.

A Soviet doctor helps an exhausted woman walk.

Men lead women out of the barracks and carry them out on stretchers.

Freed prisoners walk toward the camp exit.

Soviet officers with relatives of Mandic, a member of the Yugoslav government.

Faces of Mandic's family members.

Women leave the barracks.

Prisoners walk past the barracks.

Soviet officers and Mandic's family members walk along the camp fence.

Freed people walk toward the camp exit.

A woman is carried on a stretcher.

People walk past a barrack.

The stretcher with the woman is placed on a cart.

The sick are taken to the hospital.

The body of a prisoner killed by the Germans is carried out of the barracks on a stretcher, then out of the camp grounds.

A convoy of sick people leaves the camp gates.

Soviet medical workers and representatives of the International Red Cross lead liberated children out of the camp.

Children show their hands with camp numbers on them.

Freed children are led out of the camp (top).

Children leave the camp.

Charred remains of prisoners.

View of one of the ovens of the destroyed crematorium.

Charred remains of prisoners.

Peephole on the door of the gas chamber.

Cylinders with the poisonous substance "Zyklon" for the extermination of people.

A special gas mask used by the executioners during the operation of the gas chamber.

A box with poisons for lethal injections.

Bodies of murdered prisoners.

A meeting of the special commission for the investigation of crimes in Auschwitz.

A witness answers questions from the commission members.

A ditch with prisoners' steles.

Soviet officers approach the ditch.

Bodies of prisoners who died of exhaustion.

Soviet soldiers and doctors examine the ditch.

Bodies of prisoners in the ditch.

Members of the commission and former prisoners approach the improved gallows.

Former camp prisoners-scientists tell the members of the commission about the atrocities of the fascists.

Faces of the French professor Limousin A., professor Epstein B., Mansfeld P., doctor Fischer.

The scientists explain the structure of the gallows to the members of the commission.

Members of the commission in the camp warehouse, examining bales of women's hair.

A mountain of women's hair.

Bales of women's hair.

Members of the commission examining the hair of women killed in the camp.

A woman's braid in a pile of hair.

Members of the commission tearing apart bales of hair.

Jaws of killed prisoners and instruments of camp dentists.

Glasses of killed prisoners.

A warehouse of linen and clothes of killed prisoners.

The open gates of the warehouse.

Soviet soldiers examining a baby's vest.

Children's things in the camp warehouse.

Shoes of killed prisoners.

Toothbrushes, clothes brushes, and shaving brushes piled up in a pile.

Stacked suitcases of prisoners.

Labels of different countries on the suitcases.

View of a stack of suitcases.

A ditch with the bodies of prisoners.

Former prisoners of the camp are standing, women are crying.

Delegations from different countries are walking.

The Czechoslovak and Polish delegations are passing by.

General view of the funeral meeting during the funeral of prisoners.

Coffins are carried to the mass grave.

General view of the mass grave with coffins installed around it.

A speaker speaks at the funeral meeting.

General view of the mass grave.

Polish clergy are standing.

View of a part of the funeral meeting.

Crying women.

They begin to fill the mass grave with earth.

Crying women.

Doctors examine a surviving Romanian prisoner.

Examination of children.

A boy with frostbitten feet.

Photographs of children found in the camp archive.

Doctors examine small children.

Examination of an emaciated boy.

Doctors provide assistance to former prisoners.

Frostbitten feet of a prisoner.

Doctors interview former prisoners.

A woman shows her hand, into which poisonous substances were injected.

Soviet doctors examine artificially grafted ulcers on the legs of former prisoners.

Doctors examine a wound on a boy's head.

Photographs of war criminals - officers of the Auschwitz camp: Sell, the camp commander Baer.