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Jews who
were classified as “not fit for work” waiting in a grove
outside Crematoria IV before they were to be gassed. At this
point, the Jews were exhausted and in a state of shock from
the horrors of the journey and the selection process that
they had just endured. The vast majority had no idea what
fate awaited them
These photos are from
the Auschwitz
Album. The Auschwitz
Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process
of mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
This Album is unique: there is not a similar album of its
kind in the entire world. It documents, in about two hundred
photos from every direction and from every angle, the
process of arrival, the selection, the confiscation of
property and the preparation for the physical liquidation of
a Jewish transport. This transport came from the area of
Carpatho-Ruthenia (a region annexed in 1939 to Hungary from
Czechoslovakia) and arrived at the ramp of the extermination
camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944. These rare photos
provide both moving and painful documentation of the entire
process, except for the killing itself. To see an online
exhibition of the album online,
click here
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