Cropped from one of four photographs taken inside the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp" class="extiw" title="w:Auschwitz concentration camp">Auschwitz concentration camp</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi-occupied_Poland" class="extiw" title="en:Nazi-occupied Poland">German-occupied Poland</a>, part of a series known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando_photographs" class="extiw" title="en:Sonderkommando photographs">Sonderkommando photographs</a>. This photograph, number 280, shows bodies waiting to be burned in an outdoor fire pit near crematorium V in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_II-Birkenau" class="extiw" title="w:Auschwitz II-Birkenau">Auschwitz II-Birkenau</a>.
A member of the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando" class="extiw" title="en:Sonderkommando">Sonderkommando</a></i> from Greece, often named as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Errera" class="extiw" title="w:Alberto Errera">Alberto Errera</a> (or Albert, Alex, Aleko or Alekos), a Greek army or naval officer who died in Auschwitz in 1944.<p>

For Errera's death, see Gideon Graif, <i>We Wept Without Tears: Testimonies of the Jewish Sonderkommando from Auschwitz</i>, Yale University Press, 2005, p. 375; Steven Bowman, <i>The Agony of Greek Jews, 1940–1945</i>, Stanford University Press, 2009, p. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rP1QOknibUkC&amp;pg=PA95">95</a>; Shlomo Venezia, <i>Inside the Gas Chambers: Eight Months in the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz</i>, John Wiley &amp; Sons, 2013, p. 90ff.</p>
1944-08
First published in Stanislaw Wrzos-Glinka, Tadeusz Mazur and Jerzy Tomaszewski, <i>1939–1945: Cierpienie i walka narodu polskiego</i>, Zarząd Główny Związku Bojowników o Wolność i Demokrację, Warsaw, 1958, p. 80. Also see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050802103430/http://www.sonderkommando-studien.de/artikel.php?c=fotografie/resistance">here</a> and Auschwitz-Birkenau museum: <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080430094502/http://www.auschwitz.org.pl/html/eng/historia_KL/krematorium_komora_5_ok.html">[1]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081015180754/http://www.auschwitz.org.pl/html/eng/historia_KL/foto/krematorium_komora_5_foto_spalanie.html">[2]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071021041101/http://www.sonderkommando-studien.de/fotografie/280.jpg">[3]</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/othercamps/images/des%20greek%20jewry%20photo%203.jpg">[4]</a>