Israel and Zelig Jacob, Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944

Two Jewish boys wearing coats with yellow Star of David badges stand on the railway ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944, shortly after deportation from Subcarpathian Rus.

Jewish brothers Israel and Zelig Jacob of Subcarpathian Rus await selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944. Both were murdered in the gas chambers shortly after arrival.

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Notes:

Read a quote from Anne Frank about Jewish people being taken away to concentration camps.

Sources:

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Yad Vashem (Public Domain), https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa8299

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