Liberation of Auschwitz

This photograph was taken at Auschwitz-Birkenau by Alexander Vorontsov, a Soviet photographer who accompanied the soldiers of the Red Army when they liberated the camp on 27 January 1945. The photograph depicts thirteen children, one of whom (fifth from the right) is hidden from view, and only his cap is visible.

A number of the children have been identified, either by themselves or others (to the best of their memory), and are still alive today. Six of the seven live in Israel: Gabriel Neumann (fourth from the right), Bracha Katz (formerly Berta Weinhaber, second from the right), Tomy Shacham (formerly Schwarz, first from the left), Erika Dohan (née Winter, fourth from the left), Shmuel Schelach (formerly Robert Schlesinger, third from the right), and Marta Wise (née Weiss, seventh from the left). The seventh is Eva Slonim (née Weiss, eighth from the left), who lives in Australia.