The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a unique document and was donated to Yad Vashem by Lilly Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier.
The photos were taken at the end of May or beginning of June 1944, either by Ernst Hofmann or by Bernhard Walter, two SS men whose task was to take ID photos and fingerprints of the inmates (not of the Jews who were sent directly to the gas chambers). The photos show the arrival of Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia. Many of them came from the Berehovo Ghetto, which itself was a collecting point for Jews from several other small towns.
'The Auschwitz Album' was mentioned in passing in another thread and I felt it merited a thread of it's own. This album is touted a 'proof of the brutal hitlerite extermination of 6,000,000 of Europe's jews'. Feel free to look at it and judge for yourself. To me, this album shows nothing of the sort.
were to guess why no t4 personnel were chosen to perform gassing that had experience with gassing, it would be because THERE WERE NONE.
The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a unique document and was donated to Yad Vashem by Lilly Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier.
The photos were taken at the end of May or beginning of June 1944, either by Ernst Hofmann or by Bernhard Walter, two SS men whose task was to take ID photos and fingerprints of the inmates (not of the Jews who were sent directly to the gas chambers). The photos show the arrival of Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia. Many of them came from the Berehovo Ghetto, which itself was a collecting point for Jews from several other small towns.
'The Auschwitz Album' was mentioned in passing in another thread and I felt it merited a thread of it's own. This album is touted a 'proof of the brutal hitlerite extermination of 6,000,000 of Europe's jews'. Feel free to look at it and judge for yourself. To me, this album shows nothing of the sort.
I've mentioned this several times over the years here. If you look at the pictures and DO NOT read the loaded and slanted captions and ask yourself what do I see in each case. You will not see death, mass murder, abuse or even nastiness.
Of the four million jews under German control, six million died and five million survived!
Th Auschwitz Album is one more piece of evidence against the extermination claims at Auschwitz. The pictures contradict the smoking chimneys with fire coming out and the pyres.