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Description: Members of the Sonderkommando burning corpses on pyres in pits in 1944. Auschwitz II-Birkenau, photographer unknown. This is one of the famous Sonderkommando photographs taken illegally by Auschwitz prisoners. See for example Stone, Dan. The Sonderkommando Photographs. Jewish Social Studies - Volume 7, Number 3, Spring/Summer 2001 (New Series), pp. 132-148

Source: Auschwitz-Birkenau museum. [1]

[edit] Rationale for use in The Holocaust

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

It is a historically significant photograph of Auschwitz-Birkenau during The Holocaust.
Because the image depicts a non-reproducible historic event, there is no free equivalent.
It is likely to be of lower resolution than the original.
It has no commercial value.
The photo is being used for informational purposes in an article about the context within which the event took place.

[edit] Rationale for use in Night (book)

Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:

It is a historically significant photograph of Auschwitz-Birkenau during The Holocaust, which is one of the concentration camps depicted in Night (book), and a description of a firepit like this one is prominent in the book.
Because the image depicts a non-reproducible historic event, there is no free equivalent.
It is likely to be of lower resolution than the original.
It has no commercial value.
The photo is being used for informational purposes in an article about a book that describes a situation such as the one depicted.
This photo has more grass than the average little league baseball field