book is rare, unusual and horrifying. Its title, listed on separate pages in Yiddish, English, German and Hebrew — Our Destruction in Pictures — states explicitly what lies inside the book’s covers. Within are 115 photographs, some fairly benign, some troubling and some horrific, that visually tell the story of what happened to the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany. The large format volume — in reality, a bound photo album with captions — was published in 1946 by a group calling itself the Central Committee of the Liberated Jews in the British Zone. Its place of publication was Bergen-Belsen, a northern German location which, during the Holocaust, was one of the most notorious of Nazi concentration camps. In the years […]
Destruction in pictures: Book created at Bergen-Belsen
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