A paradoxical panorama: aspects of space in Lili Jacob's album
TitreA paradoxical panorama: aspects of space in Lili Jacob's album
Call number940.5318/0551
N° d'objet11544e
Lieu de publicationGottingen, Germany
EditeurWallstein Verlag
Année de publication
2021
Paginationpp137-165.
MatérielArticle
SérieEuropean Holocaust Studies Vol.3
NotesArticle from the book 'Places, spaces and voids in the Holocaust' pp137-165
Description
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