Alberto Israel Errera

Errera, born in Larissa, was a Naval Officer who joined the Greek resistance, and after been captured in Greece was deported to Auschwitz in early 1944. Their resistance did not end in Greece. With clandestine help from many others in the Auschwitz resistance, that included the POWs and Greek jewish women in the work camps, they prepared a revolt inside Auschwitz. Errera's team was responsible for taking and smuggling out the only existing photos of the exterminations inside Auschwitz, known as the "Auschwitz Album". Barouch is believed to have led the Greek Jews during the revolt. Originally the Greek Veterans of Jewish background in Auschwitz's Sonderkommando numbered some 400 men, but over time they too were been exterminated, and by the time of the revolt only around 60 remained. On October 7th 1944, having learned that the SS was going to liquidate much of the work unit, the members of the Sonderkommando at Crematorium 4 rose in revolt. Setting fire to the crematorium, they attacked the SS guards with hammers, axes, and stones. Seeing the flames rising over the building as a signal for the camp uprising, those of the Sonderkommando at Crematorium II aslo revolted, killing a Kapo and several SS men. Several hundred prisoners escaped from Birkenau, almost all of whom were caught and killed by the SS.