The Auschwitz Album: published in association with the Panstwowe Museum, Auschwitz-Birkenau [Hardcover]

Israel Guttman (Author), Yah Vashem (Introduction), Bella Gutteman (Introduction)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 2003

This album, an extraordinary find, was originally discovered during the tumult of the first days after the liberation. It reveals how two SS photographers documented the arrival of shipments of Jews to the platform in the Birkenau concentration camp, the selection process, and their path to the gas chambers and the crematoria. The photographs also memorialize the piles of possessions left by the Jews which were sorted in the 'Canada' Barracks. They are accompanied by three articles that describe the development of the camp, the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry, and the story of how the album was found; a fourth focuses on the camera as a historical tool. The 189 pictures, arranged in chronological order and reproduced in this album for the first time, are unusually powerful, not least because 70% of the people shown have been identified.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Yad Vashem Pubns; Deluxe edition (April 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9653081497
• ISBN-13: 978-9653081499
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 9.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,115,280 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Haunting, January 17, 2007

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S. kent Staubus (South Dakota) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Auschwitz Album: published in association with the Panstwowe Museum, Auschwitz-Birkenau (Hardcover)

I originally saw these photos on exhibit in Chicago, and couldn't get them out of my mind. So, I bought the book. The photos aren't at all gory, there are no shots of skinny corpses or gruesome remains in ovens. Instead they are photos of every day people. I think that makes them all the more chilling because these are people we can relate to. It's hard to put this book down once you start reading it. The story is fascinating, the photos will haunt you. You can clearly see the looks on the peoples' faces. It's a look of blind terror, the faces of people resigned to their doom. As a reader you know most all of these people will be dead an hour after these photos were taken. It's not light reading but it's one of my most remembered books.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A chillingly historical, photographic album, July 26, 2003

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Auschwitz Album: published in association with the Panstwowe Museum, Auschwitz-Birkenau (Hardcover)

Collaboratively compiled and edited by Israel and Bella Gutterman, The Auschwitz Album: The Story Of A Transport is a chillingly historical, photographic album accurately preserving and presenting the memory of the unspeakable, methodically planned, Nazi genocide perpetrated in World War II which came to be called the Holocaust. Black-and-white images of the Auschwitz concentration camp and transportation thereto, along with a compelling historical overview and commentary, make The Auschwitz Album a sober and seminal contribution to personal, academic, and community library Holocaust Studies reference shelves.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Why not buy direct?, July 30, 2009

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Notacrook (Portland, OR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Auschwitz Album: published in association with the Panstwowe Museum, Auschwitz-Birkenau (Hardcover)

I saw a reference to this book in another that I was reading, and decided to buy a copy: But they were all priced around $219. dollars, which I could not afford. So I found the Panstwowe Museum site, went to their book store, found the book at about $50 + US, pls postage it will run around $75.00. So I ordered it.
My question, is why doesn't Amazon buy from them (and maybe it does), and sell them for $120. which should be a good profit for them, good price for the buyer.