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. The Album eventually fell into the hands of a survivor of that same transport-Lili Jacob. Lili  later donated the Album to Yad Vashem.

Yad Vashem and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum are proud to offer you  this very special edition of the Auschwitz Album.

For more information, please contact: publications.marketing@yadvashem.org.il

“The photographs in ‘The Auschwitz Album’ are thus another layer of testimony, and as is generally the case for visual evidence, are very powerful, allowing a glimpse into the very core of the inferno. The gut reaction to these pictures is, naturally enough, a sense that we are looking at ‘The Evidence’ - ultimate proof of the stories we have heard time and again, which are now elevated to the status of absolute, uncontestable truth… Readers of this book are therefore sentenced to being tossed back and forth, between the urge to keep poring over this unique historical document and not to turn their eyes away, and the sense of unease that this magnetic hold over them creates.” [Dr. Iris Milner, Ha’aretz Literary Supplement, 27 July 2003]

“As the day went on, the sun shone brightly on the faces of the humiliated, already dressed in the prisoners’ striped pajamas, some too big, some too small… They stood facing the cameras as if they had only known this from time immemorial, standing as prisoners, knowing and not-knowing, facing the camera.” [Ma’’ariv, 24 April 2003]

“It may seem to us that everything has already been written about, but I can tell you that the Auschwitz Album has uniqueness and innovative aspects, but actually, I feel that in a year or two we will look upon it as a living, dynamic book, constantly changing, since this edition includes identification of the figures that were photographed… Although there were several previous editions, this is the first album presenting the original arrangements and the story of the photographs regarding the order in which events unfolded.”  [Interview by Yoel Rippl with Dr. Bella Gutterman, Israel Radio, 2nd Channel, 26 April 2003]