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The Auschwitz Album: published in association with the Panstwowe Museum, Auschwitz-Birkenau
The Auschwitz Album published in association with the Panstwowe Museum AuschwitzBirkenau This album, an extraordinary find, was originally discovered during the tumult of the first few days after the liberation. Two SS photographers documented the entire process of arrival of shipments of Jews to the platform in the Birkenau concentration camp, the selection process, and their path to the gas chambers and the crematoria. The photogr... more »aphs also memorialize the piles of possessions left by the Jews which were sorted in the "Canada" Barracks. The photographs are accompanied by three articles that describe the development of the camp, the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry, the story of how the album was found; a fourth one focuses on the camera as a historical tool. The 189 pictures, arranged in chronological order and reproduced in this album for the first time, are unusually powerful, not least because 70% of the people shown have been identified.« less