Birkenau cycle

Target entity: Birkenau cycle
Context triple: [Gerhard Richter, notableWork, Birkenau cycle]

• A. Auschwitz death marches
  The Auschwitz death marches were forced evacuations in early 1945 during which SS guards brutally drove tens of thousands of Auschwitz prisoners westward in harsh winter conditions, causing the deaths of many through exhaustion, exposure, and execution.
• B. Rumbula massacre
  The Rumbula massacre was a mass killing of Latvian and German Jews near Riga in late 1941, one of the largest Holocaust shootings in Eastern Europe.
• C. Treblinka
  Treblinka was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
• D. Lidice massacre
  The Lidice massacre was a World War II atrocity in which Nazi forces destroyed the Czech village of Lidice and murdered most of its inhabitants in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
• E. Majdanek
  Majdanek was a Nazi German concentration and extermination camp located near Lublin, Poland, where tens of thousands of Jews and other prisoners were murdered during the Holocaust.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Birkenau cycle
Target entity description: The Birkenau cycle is a series of abstract paintings by Gerhard Richter that grapple with the memory and representation of the Holocaust, based on blurred and overpainted photographs from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

• A. Auschwitz death marches
  The Auschwitz death marches were forced evacuations in early 1945 during which SS guards brutally drove tens of thousands of Auschwitz prisoners westward in harsh winter conditions, causing the deaths of many through exhaustion, exposure, and execution.
• B. Rumbula massacre
  The Rumbula massacre was a mass killing of Latvian and German Jews near Riga in late 1941, one of the largest Holocaust shootings in Eastern Europe.
• C. Treblinka
  Treblinka was a Nazi German extermination camp in occupied Poland where hundreds of thousands of Jews were murdered during the Holocaust.
• D. Lidice massacre
  The Lidice massacre was a World War II atrocity in which Nazi forces destroyed the Czech village of Lidice and murdered most of its inhabitants in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich.
• E. Majdanek
  Majdanek was a Nazi German concentration and extermination camp located near Lublin, Poland, where tens of thousands of Jews and other prisoners were murdered during the Holocaust.
• F. None of above. chosen