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The Auschwitz Album: The Story of a Transport
The University of Florida Center for Jewish Studies presents, "The Auschwitz Album: The Story of a Transport". The exhibition will run from October 29 through November 30, 2007 with an opening reception held on Sunday, November 4th from 4-6pm. Event is free and open to the public, refreshments will be provided.
The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process of mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a unique document and was donated to Yad Vashem by Lilly Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier. The photos were taken at the end of May or beginning of June 1944, either by Ernst Hofmann or by Bernhard Walter, two SS men whose task was to take ID photos and fingerprints of the inmates (not of the Jews who were sent
directly to the gas chambers). The photos show the arrival of Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia. Many of them came from the Berehov Ghetto, which itself was a collecting point for Jews from several other small towns.
Made possible through a gift by Irma and Norman Braman.