Auschwitz Album: a book based upon an album discovered by a concentration camp survivor, Lily Meier
TitleThe Auschwitz Album: a book based upon an album discovered by a concentration camp survivor, Lily Meier
Author
Call number940.547243094386/0007
Object number01912
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States
PublisherRandom House
Year of publication
1981
Physical description167p.
MaterialBook
ISBN0394519329
Description
Photographic evidence of the death camps in operation is very rare, the Nazis having forbidden the photographing of prisoners and facilities. Nevertheless, sometime toward the end of May 1944, a photographer took a series of pictures of the arrival of a transport of Carpathian Jews at Auschwitz. Assembled into an album and hidden under a pillow, they were discovered at the Dora concentration camp, by Lili Jacob Meier, as it was being liberated.