Auschwitz Album: the story of a transport

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 from Berehovo (Beregszasz) and Bilke 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.