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Elie Wiesel's Night and the Holocaust
An aerial photograph of Auschwitz III, the Monowitz-Buna camp, taken on January 14, 1945.

An aerial photograph of Auschwitz III, the Monowitz-Buna camp, taken on January 14, 1945.

This image was taken by the United States Central Intelligence Agency three days prior to the evacuation of Auschwitz. Auschwitz III was a subcamp of the Auschwitz concentration-camp system. Wiesel was here three days prior to evacuation.

Citation Information
“Auschwitz III (Buna) - Monowice, Poland,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/80040862e65ba822238854769bd7197b.
Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
Courtesy of National Archives and Record Administration.

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Item 10 of 14 in the Primary Source Set Elie Wiesel's Night and the Holocaust

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A stone from a walkway at Auschwitz, gray with ash, in a wooden box from Poland.
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A typescript of a personal narrative by Harry Blas, a Jewish Holocaust survivor.
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A 2014 image of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp with a view towards the camp entrance and tracks on the left.
A 2014 image of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp with a view of the railway and a cattle car.
An aerial photograph of Auschwitz III, the Monowitz-Buna camp, taken on January 14, 1945.
A photograph of Buchenwald inmates on liberation day, April 16, 1945.
A map of Nazi concentration camps and a graph listing numbers of those who perished.
A German photograph taken in 1943 of Jewish civilians during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto, Poland.
An excerpt from an interview with Elie Wiesel on December 20, 1983 about his remembrance of the Holocaust.

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