Foto 1/11. Women and children on the Birkenau arrival platform known as the "ramp". The Jews were removed from the deportation trains onto the ramp where they faced a selection process- some were sent immediately to their deaths, while others were sent to slave labor.

Foto 2/18. Jews arriving at the camp before undergoing the selection process. Mass scenes like this were an almost daily occurrence in the summer of 1944, when the destruction of the Jews of Hungary was at its height. In the background it is possible to see Crematorium II, to which many of the Jews were sent after selection to be killed.

Foto 3/26. 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, whose building is just visible on the top center of the photo.

Foto 4/36. Jews undergoing selection on the ramp. Visible in the background is the famous entrance to the camp. Some veteran inmates are helping the new comers.

Foto 6/90. Elderly men and women, selected for death, waiting on the ramp before being taken to the gas chamber. In Birkenau, the elderly were almost immediately sent to the gas chambers as they were deemed "unfit for work".

Foto 7/123. Women and children being taken to Crematoria IV and V by way of the BII sector of the camp. The elderly and the young children were almost always sent immediately to the gas chambers as they were deemed "unfit for work".

Foto 9/133. Jews who were classified as "not fit for work" waiting in a grove outside Crematorium IV before they were to be gassed. At this point, the Jews were exhausted and in a state of shock from the horrors of the journey and the selection process that they had just endured. The vast majority had no idea what fate awaited them.

Foto 12/ 147 en 148. Men fit for work after the delousing process. The disinfection of those not selected for the gas chambers, and the shaving of their heads was all part of the "registration" process at the camp. After they finished, they were given the striped prison uniforms

Foto 13/155 en 158. Women fit for work after the delousing process. The disinfection of those not selected for the gas chambers, and the shaving of their heads, was all part of the "registration" process at the camp. After they finished, they were given the prison uniforms seen in the picture.

Foto 14/160. Women who were classified as "able-bodied for work" and whose heads had already been shaved, being sent to the women’s section of the camp known as BI. After the disinfection and registration process was complete, they were sent for long hours of back-breaking labor in different facilities in and out of the camp.

Foto 15/173. Veteran inmates load the belongings of new arrivals onto trucks. Birkenau functioned as a massive killing and plundering facility during the period that the Hungarian Jews were sent there.

Foto 16/181. Sorting out the personal belongings of the recent arrivals at Auschwitz in a special section of the camp known as "Canada". Veteran inmates worked in this section under the constant supervision of their SS guards.