Between mid-May and early July 1944, hundreds of thousands of Jews from Hungary were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
To show their superiors the "proper implementation" of this large-scale logistical operation, the SS photographed the steps leading from the arrival of the convoys to the threshold of the gas chambers, or to the camp for the minority who escaped. to immediate death.
These photographs, known as the "Auschwitz Album", were found by a survivor, Lili Jacob, when the camps were liberated, before being used as evidence in various trials and being the subject of several editions.
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