a nazi soldier from Auschwitz. This is the real soldier, Franz Wunsch, who fell in love with Jewish prisoner, Helena Citronova and saved her life.
Franz Wunsch( far left) and Oskar Goering( far right) Oskar Goering is still alive, now 96, and was recently put on trial and condemned to 4 years in prision for his work at Auschwitz. He was the official bookkeeper and in charge of organizing the new arrivals clothing. He has since World War II renounced his Nazi past and asked forgiveness from God and the Jewish people for his crimes. Oskar is also famous for his vehement protests against Holocaust denial, the popular belief that there were never concentration camps for Jewish prisoners, and that people were never killed in gas chambers. As a former SS guard, I think it's very probable to accept his first hand account and testimony of the camp. 
I'm planning to use this picture for my book. I think
this real Jewish girl looks a lot how I imagine Nora might have liked. I don't know this real girl's name, but she was photographed as a German Jew who was transported to safety in Britain before the holocaust began.
selections at the camp
prisoners photographed at Auschwitz
the entrance to Auschwitz- Birkenau 
the gate at Auschwitz. Arbeit Macht Frei, which translated from German means "work sets you free"
male prisoners
the word" Jude" which was often scrawled angrily on the wall of a synagogue or a window in this manner, an attempt to publicly humiliate the Jews
barbed wire fences at Auschwitz
the train tracks leading to Auschwitz, where thousands of prisoners were deported, mostly to die soon after their arrival in the gas chambers 
jewish prisoners by the train to Auschwitz
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