Experience: Selection

“Unlike Chelmno and the Operation Reinhard killing centers, the Auschwitz concentration camp complex was not subordinated to the regional SS and police leader but was part of the concentration camp system under the SS Economic-Administration Main Office. Auschwitz-Birkenau was originally designated as a forced-labor camp for large numbers of, initially, Soviet prisoners of war and, later, Jewish forced laborers to be deployed on SS-inspired construction projects. Auschwitz-Birkenau developed into a killing center in the first weeks of its existence. From the first transports of Slovak Jews in the spring of 1942, the SS established a practice of selections, in which those arriving Jews who were unable to work were sent directly to two makeshift gas chambers. “

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Killing Centers.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007327

Accessed on 6/11/11.

“Jews undergoing the selection process on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp". The people in the background are on their way to Crematorium II. The selection process began immediately after the Jews were taken off the deportation trains. During a selection, women and men considered "fit for work" were sent for slave labor. The rest of the people were sent to their deaths in the gas chambers.”

Yad Vashem. “The Auschwitz Album.”
http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/photo09.html

Accessed on 6/11/11.

Birkenau, Poland, Jewish men standing in line during selection, 05/27/1944.

Yad Vashem. Photo Archives.
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/97836_31635.html

Accessed on 6/11/11.

Birkenau, Poland, 05/27/1944, Selection on the platform.

Yad Vashem. Photo Archives.
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/5854513_73055.html

Accessed on 6/11/11.

“Jews from Subcarpathian Rus undergo a selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.”

[Photograph #77235]

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Photo Archives. “The Auschwitz Album.”
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_ph.php?ModuleId=10005422&MediaId=1777

Accessed on 6/11/11.

A Jewish man from Mukachevo awaits selection in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

[Photograph #77284]

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Photo Archives. “The Auschwitz Album.”
http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarchives/detail.aspx?id=9361&search=selection&index=12

Accessed on 6/11/11.

Isidor Eisenberg

Emery Grosinger

Edith Kozlowski

Marvin Kozlowski

Mirel Rottersman

Agata (Agi) Rubin

Abraham Weberman

Rella Wizenberg

“Unlike Chelmno and the Operation Reinhard killing centers, the Auschwitz concentration camp complex was not subordinated to the regional SS and police leader but was part of the concentration camp system under the SS Economic-Administration Main Office. Auschwitz-Birkenau was originally designated as a forced-labor camp for large numbers of, initially, Soviet prisoners of war and, later, Jewish forced laborers to be deployed on SS-inspired construction projects. Auschwitz-Birkenau developed into a killing center in the first weeks of its existence. From the first transports of Slovak Jews in the spring of 1942, the SS established a practice of selections, in which those arriving Jews who were unable to work were sent directly to two makeshift gas chambers. “

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. “Killing Centers.” Holocaust Encyclopedia. http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007327

Accessed on 6/11/11.

“Jews undergoing the selection process on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp". The people in the background are on their way to Crematorium II. The selection process began immediately after the Jews were taken off the deportation trains. During a selection, women and men considered "fit for work" were sent for slave labor. The rest of the people were sent to their deaths in the gas chambers.”

Yad Vashem. “The Auschwitz Album.”
http://www1.yadvashem.org/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/photo09.html

Accessed on 6/11/11.

Birkenau, Poland, Jewish men standing in line during selection, 05/27/1944.

Yad Vashem. Photo Archives.
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/97836_31635.html

Accessed on 6/11/11.

Birkenau, Poland, 05/27/1944, Selection on the platform.

Yad Vashem. Photo Archives.
http://collections.yadvashem.org/photosarchive/en-us/5854513_73055.html

Accessed on 6/11/11.

“Jews from Subcarpathian Rus undergo a selection on the ramp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.”

[Photograph #77235]

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Photo Archives. “The Auschwitz Album.”
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/media_ph.php?ModuleId=10005422&MediaId=1777

Accessed on 6/11/11.

A Jewish man from Mukachevo awaits selection in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

[Photograph #77284]

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Photo Archives. “The Auschwitz Album.”
http://digitalassets.ushmm.org/photoarchives/detail.aspx?id=9361&search=selection&index=12

Accessed on 6/11/11.