Auschwitz: The Residence of Death

by Adam Bujak (Photographs), Teresa Świebocki, Henryk Swiebocki

We offer our readers this album about Auschwitz concentration camp, which contains both archival material when the camp was in operation and contemporary photographs of what has left.

The archival material, in the form of documents and photographs, comes mainly from the collections of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim, which assumed responsibility after the war for preserving the evidence of Nazi crimes and commemorating the martyrdom and death of the victims. The archival material illustrates the site of the camp and the buildings there in the years 1940-1945 and, more importantly, depicts the fate of the people deported to Auschwitz-both those who were put to death in the gas chambers immediately after arrival, and those who were sentenced to labor and death in the concentration camp.

The contemporary photographs are the work of Adam Bujak, an artist who has held a place among the leading Polish photographers for years. His photographs reflect the present appearance of the site of the concentration camp within the boundaries of the Museum. They depict what is left of the camp, sometimes in its original state and sometimes in the form of ruins, the witness to and evidence of the crimes of an inhuman totalitarian system. These photographs portray the most important things that distinguish the Museum from other similar institutions around the world: the original site of the greatest crime of the twentieth century, the Holocaust.

Genres: World War II, History, Nonfiction, Holocaust

127 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

About the author

Adam Bujak is a Polish artist photographer. He has been a recipient of numerous awards and honours, such as the Order of St. Mary Magdalene, the Grand Order of St. Zygmunt, "Totus 2003" - a prize of Fundacja Dzieło Nowego Tysiąclecia (Work of the New Millennium Foundation). In 2013 he was awarded a gold medal of John Paul II and in 2005, by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Silver Medal for Merit to Culture – Gloria Artis. His achievements include 300 albums, posters and calendars. He became famous as Pope John Paul II's photographer but also as a tireless documentarian of Polish history, tradition, customs and architecture. He is absolutely unique and outstanding in the way he portrays and preserves both Christian and other religions' rituals. Not only do his photographs show events, but first and foremost they focus on participant' emotions. Adam Bujak is endowed with a genuine gift for capturing the most transitory moments of human life. Owing to his talent, but more importantly his personality and modesty, places inaccessible to most of us become open to him and his camera. They include Polish contemplative monastery of the Camaldolese monks and convents of the Norbertine and the Carmelite nuns, Orthodox Rus or closed and mistrustful community of the Romani.

Source (16.03.2014):
http://adambujak.pl/bio

Reviews

[Paula Fialho Silva · Rating 5 out of 5]

#HolocaustRemembranceDay
"We are in a death camp. It is an island where nothing lives. People are not here to live. They are here to find their death, sooner or later. There is no room for life here. This is the residence of death..."

[Jennifer · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great informational book of the complexity of the camp system Auchwitz. I bought this books while at Auschwitz. It's mostly pictures of the camps and quotes by both prisoners and Nazi guards and officers who worked there.

[Antonija · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is no room for life here. This is the residence of death. (Zalmen Gradowski)

[Magdalena Jurczak · Rating 5 out of 5]

Ciężkie to. Ciężkie.

[Elena]

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