Series 2 - Auschwitz

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SSO/1/2/2

Title

Auschwitz

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  • 8 November 1979 (Creation)

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45 prints, 55 contact prints & detailed captions for photographs by Soames

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Images from Auschwitz, including:

Memorial torch in front of crematoria and gas chamber (2 prints)
Electric barbed wire fencing around Birkenau, with watchtower and lights (7 prints, 2 oversize)
Rows of camp huts at Birkenau (2 prints)
Birkenau railway lines in the snow (3 prints, one oversize)
Memorial plaque (1 print)
View from hut window in the women's camp (3 prints, one oversize)
Auschwitz gate (5 prints, one oversize)
View from main watch tower showing searchlight (5 prints, one oversize)
Front view of crematoria ovens at Auschwitz (2 prints)
Surviving Birkenau crematoria (1 print)
Bronislau Kulinski's medical records (1 print)
Detail of Rudolf Höss' postwar account of Auschwitz (2 prints)
Details of one transport from all over Europe (4 prints)
The scaffold from which Höss was hanged in 1947 (3 prints, one oversize)
Information about Höss (1 print)
Victims' suitcases (4 prints, one oversize)
Stars of David (3 prints, one oversize)
Details of family photographs inserted into Jewish Exhibition display about the victims (2 prints)
Gas chambers (4 prints, one oversize)

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Original order recreated using the caption sheet and numbering on the reverse of prints

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