File:Members of a Sonderkommando 1005 unit pose next to a bone crushing machine in the Janowska concentration camp.png

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English: Former members of the Sonderkommando 1005 unit pose next to a bone crushing machine in the Janowska concentration camp in a photo taken by the Soviet war crimes investigation team called officially the "Extraordinary State Commission for ascertaining and investigating crimes perpetrated by the German–Fascist invaders and their accomplices". Soviet prosecutor Colonel Lev Smirnov testified in regards to the bone crushing before the Nuremberg Trials in February 1946 and submitted photos of the machines. According to Smirnov, "over 200 000 Soviet citizens" were murdered at Janowska.

A bone crusher from Janowska displayed alongside gloves made from human skin and soap made from human fat. can be seen in the Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Kiev

Pictured from left to right are: unknown, David Manusevitz, and Moses Korn.

This photograph ws taken soon after liberation for the Extraordinary Commission or the Red Army.
Date 1 August 1944 (Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris; the Lviv region was recaptured by the Red Army in late July 1944)
Source Jewish prisoners forced to work for a Sonderkommando 1005 unit pose next to a bone crushing machine in the Janowska concentration camp ushmm.org [1]
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