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Last Moments before the Gas Chambers

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Jewish women and children forced to walk towards the gas chambers

Jewish women and children forced to walk towards the gas chambers

Jewish women and children forced to walk towards the gas chambers

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

Jewish mothers and children forced walk to the gas chambers, past the barracks and the electrified barbed wire

An old Jewish woman takes care of the little children as they are forced to walk towards the gas chambers

Jewish mothers and children forced walk to the gas chambers, past the barracks and the electrified barbed wire

Jewish women and children forced to walk along the camp's barracks toward the gas chambers

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

These were the last relatively peaceful moments together, before being driven into the gas chambers and murdered

These were the last relatively peaceful moments together, before being driven into the gas chambers and murdered

These were the last relatively peaceful moments together, before being driven into the gas chambers and murdered

These were the last relatively peaceful moments together, before being driven into the gas chambers and murdered. In the background: the barracks of "Kanada"

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.

Jews in the grove before being forced to go to the undressing room

More scenes of the peaceful interval in the grove before the Jews are driven into the undressing room

More scenes of the peaceful interval in the grove before the Jews are driven into the undressing room

More scenes of the peaceful interval in the grove before the Jews are driven into the undressing room

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.

Mothers and their children during the interval in the grove

Jewish women and children in the grove

A view of the grove

Jewish women and children forced to walk to the grove

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

Jewish women and children forced to walk towards the gas chambers

Jewish women and children forced to walk towards the gas chambers

Jewish women and children forced to walk towards the gas chambers

Jewish women and children forced to walk towards the gas chambers

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

Jewish mothers and children forced walk to the gas chambers, past the barracks and the electrified barbed wire

An old Jewish woman takes care of the little children as they are forced to walk towards the gas chambers

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.

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