“Lili Jacob Album”

An album of photographs taken by SS men in late May 1944. The photographs depict among others the arrival of Jews to Birkenau, selection on the ramp, walking to the gas chambers, the first moments in the camp for the persons left alive, the delivery of plundered property (plunder) and its sorting. The album was named after Lili Jacob, a Jewish woman from Slovakia survived from Auschwitz, who after the war found it in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.

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