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Description The "Kanada" barracks in the Auschwitz concentration camp, German-occupied Poland, during the Holocaust. The warehouses were named "Kanada" because they were seen as the land of plenty. They contained the looted belongings of prisoners, including those sent to the gas chamber on arrival.
Date May/June 1944
Source USHMM, photograph 779933. Also see Auschwitz Album, Yad Vashem.
Author Anonymous; thought to be SS officers Bernhardt Walter and Ernst Hofmann


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This work is in the public domain because it was published in the United States between 1978 and March 1, 1989 without a copyright notice, and its copyright was not subsequently registered with the U.S. Copyright Office within 5 years.

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