In the Camps [Hardcover]

Erich Hartmann (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1995

Published to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, this text is a photographic testimony by the Magnum photographer, Erich Hartmann. It captures the sites of over 30 former Nazi concentration camps as they exist today, such as Buchenwald near Weimar, Auschwitz in Poland and Theresienstadt in the Czech Republic. They are quiet, empty and derelict, their stillness accentuating the sense of desolation they share, and some will soon become museums, less palpable reminders of their horrific past. This collection of photographs by Hartmann, an exile from Germany in 1938, is intended to pay silent homage to the countless victims who died in the camps.

Editorial Reviews

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Hartmann and his parents, his brother, and his sister fled Germany in 1938 for the U.S. Hartmann, a Jew, was 16 at the time. Presented here are 74 stark black-and-white photographs by him, along with text, showing 31 Nazi concentration camps as they are today, 50 years after their liberation by the Allied armies. We see the barbed wire fences surrounding Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buchenwald, Majdanek, and Natzweiler; the railroad tracks leading to Buchenwald, Theresienstadt, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz; the guard towers of Majdanek; and the gates of Buchenwald, Dachau, and Birkenau. There are photos of stacks of shoes, suitcases, artificial limbs, and children's clothes in Auschwitz; photos of wooden barracks in Birkenau and Buchenwald; and dissection tables for medical experiments on inmates in Sachsenhausen, Vught, and Mauthausen. Hartmann has photographed the gas chambers in Majdanek, Mauthausen, and Auschwitz and the crematoriums in Ravensbruck, Sachsenhausen, and Dachau. The result is a haunting reminder of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust. George Cohen

Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc; 1st edition (May 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 039303772X
• ISBN-13: 978-0393037722
• Product Dimensions: 11.3 x 10.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,673,646 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful, haunting....I love this book!, March 28, 1999

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This review is from: In the Camps (Hardcover)

This book shows what these places look like now. The picture that had the greatest impact on me was the one of the little girl skipping out of the unused gas chamber at Dachau. Absolutely stunning photographs.