A powerful visual presentation of the extermination process at Auschwitz is viewed through candid photographs of its victims.

Presents restored photographs originally taken in June, 1944 by two SS men of one day in the lives of Hungarian Jews as they leave the freight cars at the Auschwitz-Birkenau platform to the collection and sorting of their belongings.

The "Sonderkommando of "Auschwitz-Birkenau consisted primarily of Jewish prisoners forced by the Germans to facilitate the mass extermination. Though never involved in the killing itself, they were compelled to be "members of staff" of the Nazi death-factory. This book, translated for the first time into English from its original Hebrew, consists of interviews with the very few surviving men who witnessed at first hand the unparalleled horror of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Some of these men had never spoken of their experiences before.

Stirring, intimate photographs, these were the personal treasures of Jewish deportees to Auschwitz discovered at the camp in 1986 by the daughter of two Holocaust survivors. 400+ photos.