In the photos we see the men, women and children step out of the overcrowded train, traumatized and fearful after their horrendous journey. They have no clue that they have just been delivered to a death factory and that few of them will survive / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
This photograph, taken from the roof of the train, shows the main platform, completed in May 1944, shortly before the arrival of the transports from Hungary. In the foggy background: the buildings of Crematoria II and III / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
From the top of the train, the photographers give a broad view of the platform. Along the horizon, on the left and right, we can see the buildings of Crematoria II and III with their chimneys / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Newcomers from Carpatho-Ruthenia-Jews from Berehovo, Bilke, and the region-disembark from the train. None of the doors was opened without an order from the SS / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Men, women and children on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp". The Jews were removed from the deportation trains onto the ramp where they faced a selection process — most of them were sent immediately to their deaths, while others were sent to slave labour / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The property that Jews have brought with them is gathered on the ground in one corner / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The arriving Jews stand in front of the railroad cars, awaiting the Germans' orders. Some of them notice the photographer and look curiously into the camera / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Since the railroad car has no convenient steps, the old Jews have to be assisted in disembarking. The words written on the side of the train are "Deutsche Reichsbahn" ("German State Railway") / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Women and children on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp". The Jews were removed from the deportation trains onto the ramp where they faced a selection process — most of them were sent immediately to their deaths, while others were sent to slave labour / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Women and children on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp". The Jews were removed from the deportation trains onto the ramp where they faced a selection process — most of them were sent immediately to their deaths, while others were sent to slave labour / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Women and children on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp". The Jews were removed from the deportation trains onto the ramp where they faced a selection process — most of them were sent immediately to their deaths, while others were sent to slave labor / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Women and children on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp". The Jews were removed from the deportation trains onto the ramp where they faced a selection process — most of them were sent immediately to their deaths, while others were sent to slave labor / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Women and children on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp". The Jews were removed from the deportation trains onto the ramp where they faced a selection process — most of them were sent immediately to their deaths, while others were sent to slave labor / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jews arriving at the camp before undergoing the selection process. Mass scenes like this were an almost daily occurrence in the summer of 1944, when the murder of the Jews of Hungary was at its height / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jews arriving at the camp before undergoing the selection process. Mass scenes like this were an almost daily occurrence in the summer of 1944, when the murder of the Jews of Hungary was at its height / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The Jews who just arrived are taking care of their property as they are under the assumption they will be needing it. They have no idea that most of them will be murdered, and their property appropriated by the Nazis / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The Jews who just arrived are taking care of their property / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The selection process carried out by SS doctors and wardens took place twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, as train after train unloaded its human cargo. Most Jews were sent immediately to their death / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Pictured here are Jews who just arrived at the camp, but have not yet undergone the selection process. On the left side, towards the bottom, it is possible to see some of the belongings that the Jews brought with them. The belongings remained on the platform until after the Jews had undergone selection / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jews being prepared for selection process / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Some of the Jews are looking at the inside of a train car, where the photographer is standing. Crematorium building II can be seen at the top right. Top left: the "Lagerstrasse" (the so called main camp street) / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The platform is now full of Jews. Two trucks can be seen on the left; another is hidden in the background / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jews forced to stand in line to wait for selection process to begin / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The archway of the main watchtower can be seen in the background / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The archway of the main watchtower can be seen in the background / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jews undergoing the selection process / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The line of Jewish men on the left is advancing toward a SS man. In the background, the selection of the Jewish women is taking place. The two Jewish women in front have, as it seems, been selected for slave labour / / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
A SS physician "examining" the health of the Jew standing before him. The woman in the forefront: Geza Lajtos of Budapest / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
These two young women have probably just been selected for slave labour / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The selection process continues / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jews undergoing the selection process on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp" / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jews undergoing the selection process on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp". A number of veteran inmates can be seen assisting the new arrivals. Veteran inmates were forced by the SS to stand on the "ramp" to ensure an "orderly" selection process / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The SS people are dividing the prisoners into two groups / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The SS people are dividing the prisoners into two groups / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jews forced to stand in line before the beginning of the selection / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jews forced to stand in line before the beginning of the selection / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jews forced to stand in line before the beginning of the selection / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Children, adults, and elderly Jews stand in line before the beginning of the selection / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Second row, from left to right: Mr. Smilazick, Sigmund Bruck. First row: Mr. Smilazick's son / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jews forced to stand in line before the beginning of the selection / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Two of Lili Jacob's siblings - Sril (Israel) and Zelig. They were gassed shortly after arrival / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish men on the platform before selection / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish men on the platform before selection / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish men on the platform before selection / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women and children on the selection platform / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women and children on the selection platform / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women and children on the selection platform / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women and children on the selection platform / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women and children on the selection platform / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish men after the selection / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Second from left: Jacob Fettman, from Nyirjespuszta ghetto, third from left — his son, Menachem Zvi Fettman / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish men after the selection / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish men after the selection / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
A minority of Jews was selected for forced labor. Their personal belongings will be confiscated, their hair will be shaved and a registration number was tattooed on their left arm / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
These Jewish men have just entered Birkenau as prisoners / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
These Jewish men have just entered Birkenau as prisoners / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
These Jewish men have just entered Birkenau as prisoners / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
These Jewish men have just entered Birkenau as prisoners / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women selected for slave labour / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
A minority of Jews was selected for forced labor. From left to right: Suri Aron of the Tacovo ghetto, Chedvah Zelig (survived the Holocaust), Ester Kanez (survived the Holocaust), Cilly Stahl (survived the Holocaust) / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women who have been selected for slave labor. In the background, the personal belongings brought by the deportees / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The Jewish women, now prisoners, have been permitted to carry small packages. First row, from left to right: Lili ("Bobo") Yakobovics of Tacovo (survived the Holocaust), Rozi Bittman, Rozi Grever (survived the Holocaust). Second row: Ester Klein, Sima Müller, Mariska Müller / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women who have been selected for slave labour / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women who have been selected for slave labour / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women who have been selected for slave labour / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women cross through a camp section in Birkenau on their way to the "Sauna" / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
(shower). The men watching from behind near the electrified barbed wire are prisoners in Birkenau.
Jewish women who have been selected for slave labour / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women who have been selected for slave labour / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Young Jewish men after the shower leave the washing barracks. Their hair was shaved and they were given prison uniforms / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish men with the striped uniforms / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Women prisoners - their personal belongings were confiscated, their hair was shaved and a registration number was tattooed on their left arm / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Female prisoners on their way to the barracks after registration / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
After having been shaved, these Jewish women are being taken to their barracks / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Female prisoners on their way to the barracks after registration / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish men and women prisoners on the way to their barracks / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Female prisoners are escorted to the barracks by the Blockälteste at the left. The building on the right is the kitchen of the women's camp / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish men and women prisoners on the way to their barracks / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Women prisoners on the way to their barracks / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Women prisoners forced to stand in line outside the barracks / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women prisoners in front of the barracks / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women prisoners in front of the barracks / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women prisoners in front of the barracks / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women prisoners walk inside the women's camp, wearing the standard prison uniform. On the left, a SS man watches them / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish men and women prisoners / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish men and women prisoners / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Roll call in front of the kitchen building / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish men and women prisoners on the way to their barracks / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women prisoners / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The work of sorting the possessions that the Jews brought with them to Auschwitz was done by Jewish prisoners who were forced to collect the packages and sort the items that would then be sent to the Reich. By the time the sorting was completed, most of the previous owners were already dead / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
A group of Jewish prisoners works on sorting goods / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish property that has been left on the platform, to be taken by trucks to the "Kanada" section / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The work of sorting the possessions that the Jews brought with them to Auschwitz was done by Jewish prisoners who were forced to collect the packages and sort the items that would then be sent to the Reich. By the time the sorting was completed, most of the previous owners were already dead / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Trucks transport confiscated property to the "Kanada" section / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish property that has been left on the platform, to be taken by trucks to the "Kanada" section / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish property that has been left on the platform, to be taken by trucks to the "Kanada" section / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish property that will be sorted and sent to the Reich / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The barracks of the "Kanada" section were not sufficient; huge quantities of property filled the spaces between the barracks / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Trucks arrive in front of the "Kanada" barracks with new confiscated items / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
A view of the endless bags and suitcases that were collected and sorted in "Kanada" / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish prisoners being forced to sort through the property left behind / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
On a blanket spread on the ground, the "Kanada" prisoners begin the sorting / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Male and female prisoners in the "Kanada" section, the arrival of the trucks, and the initial sorting outside the barracks / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Clothes confiscated from the arriving Jews / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Kommando "Kanada" at work / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Sorting through the property left behind / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Male and female prisoners in the "Kanada" section, the arrival of the trucks, and the initial sorting outside the barracks / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Sorting outside the barracks. A truck has brought a new shipment of confiscated goods / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Sorting outside the barracks. A truck has brought a new shipment of confiscated goods / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The undressing rooms of the gas chambers were not sufficient for the masses of Hungarian Jews who arrived daily in the summer of 1944. They therefore had to wait until the undressing rooms were ready to absorb them. The common waiting place was the grove closest to the crematorium / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish mothers and children forced walk to the gas chambers, past the barracks and the electrified barbed wire / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
An old Jewish woman takes care of the little children as they are forced to walk towards the gas chambers / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish mothers and children forced walk to the gas chambers, past the barracks and the electrified barbed wire / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women and children forced to walk along the camp's barracks toward the gas chambers / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The undressing rooms of the gas chambers were not sufficient for the masses of Hungarian Jews who arrived daily in the summer of 1944. They therefore had to wait until the undressing rooms were ready to absorb them. The common waiting place was the grove closest to the crematorium / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
These were the last relatively peaceful moments together, before being driven into the gas chambers and murdered / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
These were the last relatively peaceful moments together, before being driven into the gas chambers and murdered / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
These were the last relatively peaceful moments together, before being driven into the gas chambers and murdered / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
These were the last relatively peaceful moments together, before being driven into the gas chambers and murdered. In the background: the barracks of "Kanada" / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jews who were classified as "not fit for work" waiting in a grove outside Crematorium IV before they were to be gassed. At this point, the Jews were exhausted and in a state of shock from the horrors of the journey and the selection process that they had just endured. The vast majority had no idea what fate awaited them / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jews in the grove before being forced to go to the undressing room / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
More scenes of the peaceful interval in the grove before the Jews are driven into the undressing room / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
More scenes of the peaceful interval in the grove before the Jews are driven into the undressing room / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
More scenes of the peaceful interval in the grove before the Jews are driven into the undressing room / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
No memory of the men, women, and children that were deemed “valueless” upon their arrival remains in camp records. This album is the sole witness to their fate / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Mothers and their children during the interval in the grove / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women and children in the grove / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
A view of the grove / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women and children forced to walk to the grove / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
No memory of the men, women, and children that were deemed “valueless” upon their arrival remains in camp records. This album is the sole witness to their fate / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women and children forced to walk towards the gas chambers / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women and children forced to walk towards the gas chambers / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women and children forced to walk towards the gas chambers / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Jewish women and children forced to walk towards the gas chambers / Copyright © 2021 Yad Vashem. The World Holocaust Remembrance Center