Holocaust: March 2008 Archives
Alec Wilkinson has a piece in this week's New Yorker magazine about the recently recovered photo album of German officers at Auschwitz, including Mengele and Hoess -- called "Picturing Auschwitz." [To view the photos click here.]
There are a number of fascinating things in the article, including the tidbits about how various researchers were able to figure out whose album it was, and their efforts to identify the Nazis pictured. I found the researchers themselves interesting as well. The album is from 1944, shortly after the massive arrivals and murders of Hungarian Jewry (Michael Berenbaum is quoted in the article as saying regarding the murders then "1944 was the year Auschwitz became Auschwitz).
I also want to share a surreal moment from the article. Lilli Jacobs was an Auschwitz inmate and survivor who came upon what until now was regarded as the only album of Auschwitz photos. In describing her journey after Auschwitz, Wilkinson relates that she came to the US in 1948 and lived in Miami where she worked as a waitress. Here is the surreal tidbit.
There are a number of fascinating things in the article, including the tidbits about how various researchers were able to figure out whose album it was, and their efforts to identify the Nazis pictured. I found the researchers themselves interesting as well. The album is from 1944, shortly after the massive arrivals and murders of Hungarian Jewry (Michael Berenbaum is quoted in the article as saying regarding the murders then "1944 was the year Auschwitz became Auschwitz).
I also want to share a surreal moment from the article. Lilli Jacobs was an Auschwitz inmate and survivor who came upon what until now was regarded as the only album of Auschwitz photos. In describing her journey after Auschwitz, Wilkinson relates that she came to the US in 1948 and lived in Miami where she worked as a waitress. Here is the surreal tidbit.
In 1958, she was a contestant on the television show "Queen for a Day," in which four women told why they thought they should win, and what hey wanted if they did. Women usually asked for such things as a washer and a dryer, because they had eight children, or a vacation because they had never had one. Jacob asked for five hundred dollars to have a plastic surgeon remove the number A-10862 from her arm. It had been tattooed there at Auschwitz. She said that she didn't want a general anesthetic. Having been awake when it was drawn, she wanted to be awake to see it removed. She won.
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