Alexei Melnikov, a 31-year-old Russian brought to Auschwitz in February 1944 (no. 173989)

Alexei Melnikov, a 31-year-old Russian brought to Auschwitz in February 1944 (no. 173989). In the camp he had been beaten and wounded with a bayonet, which resulted in the scars in his back. Photograph taken during the medical examination of former prisoners by physicians of the Extraordinary State Commission of the Soviet Union for the Investigation of the Crimes of German-Fascist Aggressors, February‒March 1945. Source: APMA-B