The Auschwitz Album: Deluxe Edition
€ 175,00
The Auschwitz Album: published in association with the Panstwowe Museum, Auschwitz-Birkenau
by Israel Guttman (Author), Yah Vashem (Introduction), Bella Gutteman (Introduction)
This album, an extraordinary find, was originally discovered during the tumult of the first days after the liberation.
It reveals how two SS photographers documented the 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 photographs also memorialize the piles of possessions left by the Jews which were sorted in the 'Canada' Barracks. They are accompanied by three articles that describe the development of the camp, the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry, and the story of how the album was found; a fourth 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.
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House; Deluxe edition
Language : English
Hardcover : 304 pages
ISBN-13 : 9789653081499
Item Weight : 3.19 pounds
Dimensions : 9.5 x 1 x 12.25 inches
Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau
Established by the Nazis in 1940, Auschwitz-Birkenau has become a symbol of terror, genocide and the Holocaust.
Although the exact number of victims is unknown, many Jews, Poles and gypsies died here.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (Polish: Państwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau)[3] is a museum on the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Oświęcim (German: Auschwitz), Poland.
The museum consists of two parts: Auschwitz I, the first and oldest camp (the number of prisoners fluctuated around 15,000, sometimes rising above 20,000) and Auschwitz II, Birkenau (which held more than 90,000 prisoners in 1944).
The greater part of the apparatus of mass extermination was built in Birkenau and the majority of the victims were murdered there.