Auschwitz: A History in Photographs

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Summary: Excellent Pictorial Account
Review: Having just visited Auschwitz last week, I ordered this book as a remembrance of my experience there. The pictures and the stories behind the way they were obtained are extremely compelling and accurately show the accounts of the people who perished there.

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Summary: A Testament To The Memory Of The Innocents Who Were Murdered
Review: Having visited the exact areas from which these photographs are taken, I am so grateful to have this book as a memorial of my visit and experiences there.

To actually see the places where innocent Jews were executed and where countless thousands of children were gassed and their remains cremated as part of the Nazi industrial death machine, is one of the most harrowing experiences of my life.

If you are unable to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum personally, then this book has to be the next best thing. The photographs show that little has changed there from those evil years under the Nazi regime of Hitler, Himmler and co..

The buildings full of human hair, much from children still bearing their innocent plaits and curls. Buildings full of spectacles and suitcases still bearing the names of those murdered, along with so many other personal possessions. The buildings where they existed before the ultimate short trip to the gas chambers. The firing squads and the 'wall of death' between blocks 10 and 11. They are all documented so well in this book.

This book is highly, highly recommended. How long these sites will actually remain is beginning to be questioned. Even now, with anti-Semitism again raising it's ugly head in Europe, plans are being talked about to build discotheques and shopping centres in the viscinity of the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum. Little if any thought is being paid to the desecration of the memory and sanctity of the site where so many innocents perished. How long will it be before the site is itself talked of in terms of it's removal in pursuit of 'progress'.

The memories must be kept alive so that history does not repeat itself. This book is a testament to the evil perpetrated there.

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Summary: A great picture novel that helped me learn more.
Review: I'm still yet a child, and still yet to grow, but I will never grow out of the rememberence of the Holocaust. It was a time in our worlds history that we should never forget. This book helps reminds us of it and gives us a better view and perspective of what happen and to never take advantage of it.