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The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a unique document and was donated to Yad Vashem by Lilly Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier. The photos were taken at the end of May or beginning of June 1944, either by Ernst Hofmann or by Bernhard Walter, two SS men whose task ...
- Album
The Auschwitz Album Arrival. Home; Album. Arrival;...
- Multimedia
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest extermination center...
- Selection
The Auschwitz Album Selection. Home; Album. Arrival;...
- Assignment to Slave Labor
The Auschwitz Album Assignment to Slave Labor. Home; Album....
- Kanada
The Auschwitz Album "Kanada" Home; Album. Arrival;...
- Last Moments before the Gas Chambers
The Auschwitz Album Last Moments before the Gas Chambers....
- Auschwitz-Birkenau
The Nazis, desperate to withdraw, sent most of the 58,000...
- Lilly Jacob
It was also, as we now know, the only photographic evidence...
- Album
Jan 27, 2019 · From 1940 to 1945, the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex was the largest of the Nazi death camps, was comprised of three central hubs and dozens of subcamps. By the time it was liberated in 1945, some 1.1 million people — 90% of them Jews — had been murdered within its walls. These pictures show the brutal and inhumane reality of life as an ...
- Buzzfeed News Photo Essay Editor
The photographer, shooting from the hip, aimed the camera too high. The Sonderkommando photographs are four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 inside the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. [1] Along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album, they are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas ...
Sep 30, 2007 · 30-09-2007. The Holocaust Museum in Washington has given Auschwitz Museum historians access to the 115 photographs in an album belonging to Auschwitz SS man Karl Hoecker. Adjutant to the third Auschwitz commandant, Richard Baer, Hoecker took the pictures in the second half of 1944. An anonymous benefactor recently donated the photographs to the ...
None of the pictures in the album gives any hint of violence or death. These are the two elements that are completely absent from the pictures – as if there was no violence or death in Auschwitz at all. The purpose of the album remains a mystery even to this day. It was not intended for propaganda purposes, nor does it have any obvious ...
The collection of prison photographs consists of 38,916 photos, including 31,969 photos of men and 6,947 photos of women. The photos were taken in three body positions: profile, en face and en face in a cap (men) or en face in a shawl (women). The prisoners in the photographs wear striped uniforms. Some of them wear civilian clothes.
Bernhard Eichhorn (17 April 1904 – 6 February 1980 [1]) was a German composer, who produced a number of film scores. Biography. Eichhorn was born in Schortewitz. [2]
