Auschwitz: A History in Photographs

by Teresa Swilebocka, Jonathan Webber (Designer), Connie Wilsack (Translator)

Photographic survey of Auschwitz concentration camp chronicling its historical facts.

Genres: Holocaust, History, World War II, Nonfiction, Photography, War

295 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

Reviews

[Jaret Ferratusco · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is primarily to introduce the history and explore current meanings of (or reasoning for) the preservation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps for generations past, those of now, and future generations to come. Originally published in 1993, it is a stark and matter-of-fact textbook to the key elements of this most complex and many-faceted monument to the true prize of human hatred: Pure destruction. Very well composed, especially the closing essay by Jonathan Webber, who also has published several books on the subject of Auschwitz and the Holocaust.

Published by the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, whose deep library of educational literature is like a vast University, worth repeated terms and semesters.

https://books.auschwitz.org/

[Doug Rodgers · Rating 5 out of 5]

My cousin who lives in Poland, brought this book with him when he came here to visit with his mother. While I have looked through the book in the past and read the captions, this is the first time I could read it in its entirety.

I've read a lot in the past on the "Final Solution" by the mad Nazis, but the pictures, the drawings and commentary brings the atrocities that occurred during the Second World War by the Nazis shows how inhuman they were to all the murders they performed.

[Steffi Bevers · Rating 5 out of 5]

Het boek bestaat uit informatie aangevuld met veel aangrijpende foto’s. Bij elke foto staat ook telkens een korte omschrijving. Ook zijn er tekeningen en kunstwerken afgebeeld in dit boek die door de gevangenen zijn gemaakt tijdens hun gevangenschap of net daarna. Heel mooi maar zeer aangrijpend boek.

[amanda Navarro · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an older book but it is so important for people to understand. You have to understand what happened to ensure it will never happen again. The pictures were rough and heartbreaking.

[Dan Kohlmeyer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very interesting and disturbing phograghs