Brothers Israel and Zelig Jacob on arrival at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp

Nine and eleven-year old brothers, Israel and Zelig Jacob, on arrival at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in May 1944. The "Auschwitz Album" is an album of photographs documenting the arrival, selection and processing of one or more transports of Jews from Subcarpathian Rus (Carpatho-Ukraine), then part of Hungary, that came to Auschwitz-Birkenau in the latter half of May, 1944. The album was taken by SS-Hauptscharführer Bernhardt Walter, head of the Auschwitz photographic laboratory known as the Erkennungsdienst and his assistant, SS-Unterscharführer Ernst Hofmann.

Speaker: Annalise Vezina, Bringing the Lessons Home Youth Ambassador, US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Image Source: Yad Vashem (public domain)

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