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Presentation of
the memorial book Holocaust
Memorial Day German
Historical Institute Speakers
In the archives of the Auschwitz-Birkenau National Museum, 2,400 private photographs exist that were evidently among the possessions of people murdered in Birkenau. For fifty years the origins of the photographs remained unknown. In 1995 the Fritz Bauer Institute and the Museum in Auschwitz agreed to co-operate to identify the story of the photographs and as many of the people in them as possible, in order to find out about their lives and their fate. The photographs belonged to Jews from Bedzin and Sosnowiec in southern Poland. They were probably all deported in the same transport to Auschwitz, where most of them were killed. All 2,400 photographs and the results of research into archives in Poland, Israel and the USA, as well as numerous interviews with survivors all over the world, are presented in »Before They Perished«. At the same time, a new permanent exhibition has been created in the former »sauna building« at Birkenau, where the family photographs of the murdered Jews now take a central place, presenting the Jewish heritage and the Shoah in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum. This book is dedicated to the memory of the deported Jews. It presents fragments of individual lives, fragments of a Jewish way of life in Poland between modernity and tradition, assimilation and self-definition, that was extinguished in Birkenau.
Edited by
Kersten Brandt, Hanno Loewy and Krystyna Oleksy with texts by Kersten
Brandt, Hanno Loewy, Krystyna Oleksy, Marek Pelc and Avihu Ronen. Please order
at:
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Before
They Perished... Photographs Found in Auschwitz