Knowra Auschwitz Album Auschwitz Album The Auschwitz Album is a collection of photographs documenting the arrival and processing of Hungarian Jewish deportees at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. Its images provide rare visual evidence of the selection and deportation process.
Hungarian Jews in the Holocaust : The persecution and murder of Hungarian Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, especially during 1944. The album records the deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz in 1944.
Lili Jacob : A Holocaust survivor who found the Auschwitz Album at the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp after its liberation. Jacob discovered the album and recognized people photographed in it.
Holocaust photography : Photographs made during or about the Holocaust, including images produced by perpetrators, victims, liberators, and later witnesses. The album is a rare, organized body of photographs made by perpetrators during deportation.
Holocaust : The genocide of six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators during the Second World War. The deportations shown in the album formed part of this genocide.
Auschwitz-Birkenau : The largest Nazi concentration and killing center, operated in occupied Poland from 1940 to 1945. The album’s scenes show arrivals and processing at this camp complex.
Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp : A Nazi concentration camp in central Germany where prisoners were forced to produce V-2 rockets. The album survived there, where Lili Jacob found it after liberation.
Auschwitz concentration camp photographs : Photographic records made at Auschwitz by Nazi personnel, prisoners, or postwar investigators. The album belongs to the unusual surviving visual record of camp operations.
Deportation of Jews during the Holocaust : The forced removal of Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators to ghettos, camps, and killing sites. The album begins with deportees arriving after forced transport.
Selection at Auschwitz : The process by which SS personnel separated arrivals at Auschwitz, directing some to forced labor and others to immediate murder. Several photographs show deportees being selected after leaving the trains.
Yad Vashem : Israel’s official memorial and research institution for the Holocaust and its victims. Yad Vashem preserves the album and makes its images accessible for research.
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