The Auschwitz Album
Book description
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…
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1 author picked The Auschwitz Album as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I am anguished by and drawn to this book because the many photographs are so compelling and unique.
Discovered after the war, this collection of images from a Nazi’s photo album detailing the killing process at Auschwitz is, quite simply, extraordinary. Nothing else I have seen illustrates the casualness and ‘normality’ with which the persons who administered Hitler’s policies in the camps viewed their jobs and the sheer mechanization of the killing process.
I knew these things existed better than most, but seeing the visual evidence is, for me, revelatory.
From Susan's list on Holocaust books exploring the precious lives lost.
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