This documentary will present the cross-story between two volumes :
The « Lili Jacob Album » found in 1945 by the jewish woman of the same name, depicting the arrival of Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia on May 26, 1944, a few hours before being all murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The « Höcker Album », made of pictures taken from may 1944 to september showing the various activities of SS officers in Auschwitz, especially while relaxing in a nearby cottage.
All pictures from these two albums have been shot by members of the SS. But the resemblance stops there. The first album shows the victims, while the second shows the executioners.
For this reason, and now that they finally became availables more than sixty years after the war, it is essential that the albums should be presented together. Each of them is indeed, and to some extent, the negative of the other.
In the unthinkable daily life of Auschwitz, only such a new entity could show those who were the victims and those who were the executioners.
The « Lili Jacob Album » found in 1945 by the jewish woman of the same name, depicting the arrival of Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia on May 26, 1944, a few hours before being all murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The « Höcker Album », made of pictures taken from may 1944 to september showing the various activities of SS officers in Auschwitz, especially while relaxing in a nearby cottage.
All pictures from these two albums have been shot by members of the SS. But the resemblance stops there. The first album shows the victims, while the second shows the executioners.
For this reason, and now that they finally became availables more than sixty years after the war, it is essential that the albums should be presented together. Each of them is indeed, and to some extent, the negative of the other.
In the unthinkable daily life of Auschwitz, only such a new entity could show those who were the victims and those who were the executioners.
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