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The last album : eyes from the ashes of Auschwitz-Birkenau / [edited by] Ann Weiss ; introduction by James E. Young ; foreword by Leon Wieseltier. - New York : W.W. Norton, c2001. - 224 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Eyes from the Ashes -- Background and History of the Photographs -- The Photographs -- The Bendin Orphanage -- The Bes Yaakov School -- The Rappaport School -- Furstenburg Gymnasium -- Szancerowa School -- Hasidim -- Zionism -- Robert Desnos -- The Families -- The Cukierman Family -- The Diament Family -- Manya Fuchs and Viktor Goldman -- The Gitter and Stawski Families -- Roselena and Werner Hirsch -- The Huppert Family -- The Kohn and Broder Families -- The Koplowicz Family -- The Malach Family -- Genya Gutfreund Manela -- Moshe Manela -- The Monka and Rosen Families -- The Strochlitz Family -- Josef "Yossel" Rosensaft -- Yaacov Yaakobovicz and Annya Igra.

These photographs were not supposed to be seen. The Nazi order to destroy every personal photograph brought to every concentration camp was clear: Not only were the victims to be destroyed, but their memories were to be obliterated as well.

ISBN: 0393016706 9780393016703

LCCN: 99047972

Subjects--Corporate Names:
Auschwitz (Concentration camp)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Jews--Europe, Eastern--Pictorial works.
Jews--Europe, Eastern--Pictorial works.
Holocaust survivors--Biography.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biography.

LC Class. No.: DS135.E89 / L37 2001

Dewey Class. No.: 940.53