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

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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.

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.

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.