Archive object

Auschwitz II-Birkenau memorial gate

Memorial view of Auschwitz II-Birkenau, August 2006. Michel Zacharz, CC BY-SA 2.5. The gatehouse dates from 1943. Martha Reichenbach is not in this picture, and this archive has no intake photograph of her.

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Memorial view of Auschwitz II-Birkenau, August 2006. Michel Zacharz, CC BY-SA 2.5. The gatehouse dates from 1943. Martha Reichenbach is not in this picture, and this archive has no intake photograph of her.

SeriesPersecution and memorial records

Archive reference
CTX-CAMP-BIRKENAU-GATE-2006
Date
August 2006
Digital image
1800 × 1350 pixels
Evidence status
Freely licensed present-day memorial context; not an intake photograph or evidence that Martha was registered at Auschwitz.
Uncertainty
The gatehouse dates from 1943. The photograph does not depict Martha Reichenbach, and no Auschwitz intake card for her has been found.
Source and provenance
Wikimedia Commons file Birkenau gate.JPG; own work by Michel Zacharz.
Credit
Michel Zacharz / Wikimedia Commons
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.5).
Image treatment
Unaltered Wikimedia Commons access JPEG. Not a family-held original.

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Chicago-style suggested citation

Reichenbach Family Archive. “Auschwitz II-Birkenau memorial gate.” August 2006. CTX-CAMP-BIRKENAU-GATE-2006. https://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/ctx-camp-birkenau-gate-2006.

Permanent URLhttps://www.reichenbacharchive.org/objects/ctx-camp-birkenau-gate-2006