Liberation of Auschwitz
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Picture of a group of 13 children
These photographs was taken at Auschwitz-Birkenau by Alexander Vorontsov, a Soviet photographer who accompanied the soldiers of the Red Army after they liberated the camp on 27 January 1945. The photographs depicts thirteen children.
All the children have been identified. From the left to the right they are:
- (1) Tomy Shacham / Tomy Schwarz / Tomasz Szwarz (M / Slovakia, 1933) -- <Israel>
- (2) Miriam Friedman / Miriam Ziegler (F / Poland, 1933) -- <Canada>
- (3) Pessa Balter / Paula Lebovics (F / Poland, 1933)) -- <United States>
- (4) Ruth Muschkies / Ruth Webber (F / Poland, 1935)
- (5) Bracha Katz / Berta Weinhaber (F) <Israel>
- (6) Erika Dohan / Erika Winter (F / Czechia, 1931) <Israel>
- (7) Marta Wise (
- (8) Eva Slonim (
- (9) Gabor Hirsch <Switzerland>
- (10) Gabriel Neumann / Gabriel Nejman (fourth from the right) <Israel>
- (11) Shmuel Schelach / Robert Schlesinger (third from the right) <Israel>
- (12 & 13) Eva & Miriam Mozes / Eva Moses Kor & Miriam Moses Zieger (wearing knitted hats)
Picture of a group of small children
The photo includes: (1) Tova Friedman; (2) Sarah Ludwig; and (3) Michael Bornstein.
