A collection of photographs known as the ‘Auschwitz Album’ is the only surviving photographic evidence of Hungarian Jews arriving at the Auschwitz concentration camp and the horrific selection process they were forced to go through as they stepped down off the cattle wagons. But, why were the photos even taken and who commissioned such an album in the first place? What would have been its purpose? In this lecture, historian Dr Stefan Hördler reveals the sordid details behind the perpetrator photography portrayed in the album and says while it may look like an album documenting the horrors of the Holocaust, it was actually to show how efficient the Nazi's could be at selecting and killing thousands of Hungarian Jews on their arrival to Auschwitz in 1944.
