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    English: "Selection" of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at Auschwitz-II-Birkenau in German-occupied Poland, May/June 1944, during the final phase of the Holocaust. Jews were sent either to work or to the gas chamber.
    The photograph is part of the collection known as the Auschwitz Album, which was donated to Yad Vashem by Lili Jacob, a survivor, who found it in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in 1945. See Auschwitz Album, Yad Vashem: "The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau."
    The collection was first published as The Auschwitz Album in 1980 in the United States, Canada and elsewhere, by the Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, but individual images had been published before that—for example, during the 1947 Auschwitz trial in Poland and the 1963–1965 Frankfurt Auschwitz trials. It is not known when this particular image was first published.
    Afrikaans: Hongaarse Jode word deur die Nazis uitgesoek om na die gaskamers in die Auschwitz-konsentrasiekamp te gaan, Mei/Junie 1944[1].
    العربية: يهود هنغاريون اختارهم النازيين ليتم إرسالهم لغرفة الغاز في معسكر أوشفيتز بيركينو، مايو/يونيو 1944.[1].
    Español: Selección de presos en Auschwitz II-Birkenau (mayo-junio de 1944). Los que se enviaban a la derecha eran asignados a trabajos forzados, los de la izquierda iban a las cámaras de gas. "Selección" de Judios-Hugaros en Judenrampe, en mayo o junio de 1944. Vrba trabajó aquí desde Agosto de 1942 – junio de 1943. La Entrada de Auschwitz II-Birkenau se puede observar al fondo.
    Français : Photographie d'une sélection des prisonniers pour les travaux forcés ou les chambres à gaz. Auschwitz-II (Birkenau), mai/juin 1944.
    Latviešu: Ebreju ierašanās Aušvicas nāves nometnē. Ģenerālgubernatūra, 1944. gada maijs/jūnijs.
    Occitan : Fotografia de la seleccion dei Josieus ongrés a son arribada dins lo camp d'Auschwitz.
    Polski: Węgierscy Żydzi przed wysłaniem do komór gazowych w hitlerowskim obozie śmierci Auschwitz-Birkenau.
    Simple English: Photo of a selection. People being sent to the left will be killed in the gas chambers. People being sent to the right are being chosen as slave workers[9].
    Tiếng Việt: Người Do Thái Hungary được lính Đức lựa chọn để đưa tới phòng hơi ngạt tại trại tập trung Auschwitz, tháng 5/6 năm 1944.[1].
    Українська: «Селекція» угорських євреїв на пандусі в Аушвіц-II-Біркенау в окупованій Німеччиною Польщі, травень/червень 1944 року, під час завершального етапу Голокосту. Євреїв відправляли або на примусові роботи, або до газових камер.
    中文：​奥斯维辛集中营中的匈牙利犹太人，1944年5月。. 奥斯维辛集中营站台上的挑选：分到右队意味着劳役，左队则被发往毒气室。照片中为来自喀尔巴阡山罗塞尼亚地区的匈牙利犹太人，他们大多来自别列戈沃犹太区（摄于1944年5月/6月，以色列犹太大屠杀纪念馆藏）[6]. 1944年，数以千计的大屠杀的受害者到达纳粹的奥斯维辛集中营.
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    Source Yad Vashem: "Jews undergoing selection on the ramp. Visible in the background is the famous entrance to the camp. Some veteran inmates are helping the new comers."
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    Bernhard Walter (1911–1979) wikidata:Q28154918
     
    Description German photographer, concentration camp guard and plasterer
    Date of birth/death 27 April 1911 Edit this at Wikidata 7 July 1979 Edit this at Wikidata
    Location of birth/death Fürth Edit this at Wikidata Fürth Edit this at Wikidata
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    Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp; Auschwitz Edit this at Wikidata
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    (Reusing this file)    		 Yad Vashem regards the Auschwitz Album images as in the public domain, [1] as does the United States Holocaust Museum, citing Yad Vashem. [2] Other images from the Auschwitz Album are on Commons; see Category:Auschwitz Album.
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