A paradoxical panorama: aspects of space in Lili Jacob's album
TitelA paradoxical panorama: aspects of space in Lili Jacob's album
Call number940.5318/0551
Inventarnummer11544e
ErscheinungsortGottingen, Germany
VerlagWallstein Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr
2021
Seitenpp137-165.
MaterialArtikel
SerieEuropean Holocaust Studies Vol.3
NotesArticle from the book 'Places, spaces and voids in the Holocaust' pp137-165
Beschreibung
The Lili Jacobs album refers to 197 photos documenting seven different locations in both Auschwitz I and Birkenau. The album was discovered in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp by Lily Jacob, a Hungarian Jewish survivor, on the day of her liberation. The photographs capture movement in the ramp area as the selection process unfolded, the Nazi organization of this space, as well as the adaptation of Nazi routines when confronted with a flow of humans to be stripped and murdered