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The ''Sonderkommando'' photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.〔Georges Didi-Huberman, ''Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz'', University of Chicago Press, 2008; first published as ''Images malgré tout'', Les Éditions de Minuit, 2003.〕 The images were taken by an inmate in Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex, and along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.〔Franziska Reiniger, ("Inside the Epicenter of the Horror – Photographs of the Sonderkommando" ), Yad Vashem: "Among the millions of photographs that are related to Nazi death camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau."〕 The photographer was a member of the ''Sonderkommando'', inmates forced to work in and around the gas chambers. He took two shots from inside one of the gas chambers and two outside, shooting from the hip, unable to aim the camera with any precision. The Polish resistance smuggled the film out of the camp in a toothpaste tube.〔 The photographs were numbered 280–283 by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum.〔Dan Stone, ("The Sonderkommando Photographs" ), ''Jewish Social Studies'', 7(3), Spring/Summer 2001, (pp. 132–148), p. 143, n. 3.〕 Nos. 280 and 281 show the cremation of corpses in a fire pit, shot through the black frame of the gas chamber's doorway or window. No. 283 is an image of trees, the result of the photographer aiming too high. No. 282 shows a group of naked women just before they entered the gas chamber.〔Didi-Huberman 2008, p. 117.〕 ==Sonderkommando== (詳細はAfter inmates had been "selected" as unfit for work by the SS, the ''Sonderkommando'' usually took them to the undressing room (''Entkleidungskammer''), then walked them to the gas chamber, telling them they were being taken to the bathing and disinfection room.〔Gideon Greif, ''We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz'', Yale University Press, 2005, pp. 12–13, 134–135.〕 To avoid panic, inmates were given a numbered hook for their belongings in the undressing room to make them believe they would be returning.〔Piper 1998, p. 166.〕 Afterwards the ''Sonderkommando'' moved the bodies out of the gas chamber, removed gold fillings, false teeth, hair, jewellery and spectacles, and disposed of the corpses, at first in mass graves, later in furnaces and fire pits. They then cleaned the gas chamber for the next arrivals.〔Graif 2005, pp. (5–8 ), 15–16, (321 ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sonderkommando photographs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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