Here are the persons that took photos of people at Auschwitz and how (were they allowed to/ and the circumstances
There are four categories of photos that were taken in lagers. Photo ID of the prisoners . In many camps, including Auschwitz, pridoners that were accepted in the camp were photographed. People who were gassed on arrival were not even recorded, but those who were temporarily spared for work of for serving as experimentation stock, as well as non-Jewish inmates, were recorded, and in Auscwitz, Dachau, and other camps the record included a photo ID. Photo taken in secret . Sometimes the Allies and the Resistance movements were able to smuggle in a camera handing it to a prisoner. There were indeed contacts between various resistance movements inside and outside the camps. The cells inside the camps had several tasks, one of which was documentation (the others were trying to organize the rare escape attempts, setting up rebellions and sabotage of the industrial production, circulating news, managing secret radio receivers, etc.). The photos were taken hurriedly and then smuggled back out ...