Le fotografie raccolte in questo vero e proprio album furono scattate da due SS tra il maggio e il giugno 1944, in occasione della deportazione massiccia a Birkenau degli ebrei d'Ungheria. (fonte: Google Books)

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It was a magic touch on behalf of the angel of history or a simple miracle, that a rare photographic document like the "Auschwitz Album" survived, and was donated to the photo archives of Yad Vashem.

This album is unique: there is not a similar album of its kind in the whole world. It document, in about two hundred photos from every direction and from every angle, the process of arrival, the enlisting, the selection, the confiscation of property and the preparation for the physical liquidation of a Jewish transport. This Transport came from the area of Carpato-Ruthenia, a region annexed in 1939 to Hungary from Czechoslovakia, and arrived at the ramp of the extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on May 1944. The most surprising and striking fact is that the Album fell into the hands of a survivor of that same death transport. Lili Jacob opened an album and suddenly recognized the people of her community, who arrived with her to the platform of Birkenau: her rabbi, her numerous family relatives and ... herself.

Yad Vashem and the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum present you with this Deluxe Edition that includes one picture that had been missing for years and additional information on the deportees' identity and their tragic fate.