The Auschwitz Album: Lili Jacob`s Album [FIRST EDITION]  
   

 
Author Klarsfeld, Serge [Ed.]
Place of Publication New York
Publication Name Beate Klarsfeld Foundation
Year [1980]
Language(s) English
Description
RARE FIRST LIMITED EDITION of a unique photographic record of the Holocaust, obtained by Lili Jacobs (Meier) upon her liberation from the Dora-Nordhausen concentration camp in northern Germany in May, 1945. The images show Jews on their arrival at the Auschwitz camp in the summer of 1944 as well as scenes in and around the camp. The identity of the photographer has never been determined. They may have been taken by either Ernst Hoffmann or Bernhard Walter, two SS men responsible for fingerprinting and taking photo IDs of those prisoners who were not selected for extermination. 305x225mm. 24 text pages & 104 pages with 252 plates. Illustrated oblong Softcover. Cover and spine yellowing, rubbed and slightly stained/dirty. Rear cover bottom edge near spine slightly peeled and wrinkled. Cover corners and edges, and spine edges wrinkled/slightly worn. Pen inscription on front whitepage. Few pen marks on six text pages. Text pages yellowing. Plates in very good condition. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare and only surviving pictorial evidence of the extermination process from inside the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp is in good condition.
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Catalog Index Number MS 20 58


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