9 thoughts on “New photos from Auschwitz”

  1. There was a good article in the March 17 issue of the New Yorker about these photos and how they survived the war. Unfortunately, though, it’s not available online.

  2. SS officer Karl Hoecker’s life tells more story about post war Europe.
    “..He was convicted of war crimes and served seven years before his release in 1970, when he walked out of prison and was rehired by the bank. He died in 2000 at 89.”
    It is striking story as much as these newly discovered photos.

    I learned so much about death camp from this painstakingly prepared exhibition at Imperial War Museum, London, 2006.
    http://london.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.00b005
    It’s too bad they didn’t utilize the website about this exhibition.

    I was at the jam packed NY Autoshow last weekend and it’s always amazing to see how popular German automakers are at current skyhigh Euro value plus premium as an European vehicle and how they are able to bypass the slightest trace of Nazzi collaborators while they promote their heritages from 1920s onward.

  4. Phil,

    I recently lost my father after he’d suffered a long battle with several illnesses. He was a tank driver in Patton’s Third Army during WWII and was involved in the D-day landsings as well as the Battle of the Bulge.
    Looking through his war memorabilia, we came across some long misplaced photos of concentration camp survivors (Daddy’s battalion was involved in the liberation of concentration camps near the end of the war).
    These black and white stills are stark and very jolting in comparison to much of what is shown today.
    If any of your readers has any interest or suggestions of how my family could put these photos to good use please feel free to contact me at
    markadalton@gmail.com
    I am located in southern Virginia.
    Regards,
    Mark Dalton

  5. What struck me about these photos was how these people seemed to be enjoying themselves and as we know the Russians were almost at the gates of the camps. I would have been trying to figure out how to get west and blend into the crowd. I guess they all thought the wonder weapons were going to turn the tide.
    One of the things we did right at the end of the war was to give our soldiers copies of photos of the death camps to take home. I saw my brothers package. Hard for a kid to understand.

  7. Hello Mark,

    Regarding your father’s photographs, a worthwhile contact would be the Shoah
    Foundation, founded in 1994 by Steven Spielberg after he completed the film
    Schindler’s List.

    From their website “…The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, with an archive of nearly 52,000 videotaped testimonies from Holocaust survivors and other witnesses, is part of the College of Letters, Arts & Sciences at the University of Southern California. The USC Shoah Foundation Institute works with a global network of partners to provide an array of valuable educational services that reach educators, students, and the general public around the world …

    Among the work the Institute undertakes is:
    Digital access to the entire archive
    Visual history in the classroom – higher education
    Visual history in the classroom – secondary education
    Visual history training
    Visual history collections
    Documentaries

    http://college.usc.edu/vhi/

    For general questions: Telephone: U.S. 213-740-6001
    Email: vhi-web@usc.edu

    And the full staff directory:

    http://www.usc.edu/directories/dept/shoahfoundation.html

  8. regarding that – there is an exhibition in potsdam, germany right now that is dealing with the auschwitz transport trains. one of the original trains has been turned into a museum and is stationed near berlin- dealing with the involvement of the german railway services in the second world war.

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