>The Auschwitz Album
[The World Holocaust Remembrance Center]
"El álbum de Auschwitz es la única evidencia visual existente del proceso de deportación que culminaba con los asesinatos masivos del campo de Auschwitz... Las fotos fueron tomadas a fines de Mayo de 1944 por Ernst Hofmann y Berhanrd Walther, dos oficiales de las SS cuya misión era tomar fotos y huellas de los prisioneros para las tarjetas de identidad (no de los judíos que eran conducidos a las cámaras de gas). Las fotos muestran la llegada de judíos húngaros de los Cárpatos[...]
El objetivo de tales fotos no está claro. La intención no era propagandística, ni personal. Se asume que era una referencia oficial para las autoridades superiores."
"The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau... 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 Berehovo Ghetto, which itself was a collecting point for Jews from several other small towns[...]
The purpose of the album is unclear. It was not intended for propaganda purposes, nor does it have any obvious personal use. One assumes that it was prepared as an official reference for a higher authority, as were photo albums from other concentration camps."
