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Description: The image depicts a deserted street in Sighet's Jewish getto, after the Jews were deported from it to be exterminated at Auschwitz, in May 1944, just three weeks before the Normandy invasion.

Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Albert Rosenthal. [1]

[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:

1. It is a historically significant image of the ghetto Elie Wiesel lived in before he and his family and neighbors were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
2. It is being used for informational purposes in the Night (book) article, which describes that deportation, which included the book's author and his family. It has a unique historical value in helping to document the deportation of the 10-20,000 Sighet Jews to their deaths.
3. There is no free equivalent.
4. It has no commercial value.
5. We have no reason to believe the copyright holder would mind.
6. It is probably of lower resolution than the original.

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