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Poland, Women naked, before their execution

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Poland, Women naked, before their execution The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album, they are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chamber The images were taken within 15–30 minutes of each other by an inmate inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex. Usually named only as Alex, a Jewish prisoner from Greece, the photographer was a member of the Sonderkommando, inmates forced to work in and around the gas chambers. Several sources identified him as Alberto Errera, a Greek naval officer. 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 ...

The.creepshow Marianna Dolińska (1891 – 1928 in Tworki) was a Romani woman from Antoniówka, Radom County, Poland

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The.creepshow Marianna Dolińska (1891 – 1928 in Tworki) was a Romani woman from Antoniówka, Radom County, Poland. On the night of 11 December 1923, she murdered her four children and hung them on a tree. In the winter of 1923, the inhabitants of Radom County in Poland were suffering from poverty and hunger. In early December, Dolińska's husband was arrested for several burglaries and his wife was left alone with four hungry children. Marianna Dolińska, who was mentally disturbed, decided that the only way to protect their children from starvation was to kill them. On December 11, 1923 she killed Zofia (6 months), Antoni (3 years), Bronisława (5 years) and Stefan (7 years) and tied them to a tree. The next day she went to the police and confessed to the crime. Later Dolińska was delivered to a psychiatric hospital, where her "manic depression" and other medical disorders were identified. She died in 1928, and was buried in the cemetery of the hospital. All What's You S...