"Selection" of Hungarian Jews on the ramp at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz-II_Birkenau" class="extiw" title="w:Auschwitz-II Birkenau">Auschwitz II-Birkenau</a> in German-occupied Poland, around May 1944. Jews were sent either to work or to the gas chamber. The photograph is part of the collection known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_Album" class="extiw" title="w:Auschwitz Album">Auschwitz Album</a>. See <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/index.asp">Auschwitz Album</a>, Yad Vashem: "The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau." The album was donated to Yad Vashem by Lili Jacob (later Lili Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier), a survivor, who found it in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mittelbau-Dora" class="extiw" title="w:Mittelbau-Dora">Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp</a> in 1945. For more images, see <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Auschwitz_Album" title="Category:Auschwitz Album">Category:Auschwitz Album</a>.<div class="paragraphbreak" style="margin-top:0.5em"></div> The collection as a whole was first published as <i>The Auschwitz Album</i> in 1980 in the United States, Canada and elsewhere, by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_hunter" class="extiw" title="w:Nazi hunter">Nazi hunter</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Klarsfeld" class="extiw" title="w:Serge Klarsfeld">Serge Klarsfeld</a>, but individual images had been published before that – for example, during the 1947 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_trial" class="extiw" title="en:Auschwitz trial">Auschwitz trial</a> in Poland and the 1963–1965 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_Auschwitz_trials" class="extiw" title="en:Frankfurt Auschwitz trials">Frankfurt Auschwitz trials</a>. It is not known when this particular image was first published.
Anonymous photographer from the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_Erkennungsdienst" class="extiw" title="w:Auschwitz Erkennungsdienst">Auschwitz Erkennungsdienst</a>. Several sources believe the photographer to have been SS officers Ernst Hoffmann or Bernhard Walter, who ran the Erkennungsdienst.
c. May 1944
The source of this version is <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/v1551569339/190303-schwartz-auschwitz-embed-3_isx0ae.jpg"><i>The Daily Beast</i></a>. Also see <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/album_auschwitz/photo_14.asp">Auschwitz Album</a>, Yad Vashem.