The Oven Room
The Oven Room by David Olère.
1945, 58x38 cm, Ghetto Fighters House,
Israel.
A freight elevator in the background brought bodies up from the basement gassing chamber of Crematorium III at Birkenau. The wet trough at the right facilitated the dragging of bodies to the ovens.
David Olère: L'Oeil du Témoin/The Eyes of a Witness. New York: The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, 1989, p. 57.
Reprinted with permission from the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation.
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