Holocaust - Concentration Camps, World War II - Prisoners of War, World War II - Pictorial, Holocaust - General & Miscellaneous, 20th Century Photography - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
Through good fortune, Erich Hartmann and his family were able to escape Nazi Germany in the late 1930s and emigrate to America. But over the years he was haunted by the memory of what happened in the camps to his fellow Jews and other victims of the Nazis. In this stark and compelling photographic book, Hartmann has captured the Nazi concentration camps as they exist today - quiet, empty, and crumbling. He has preserved them in images before the camps, twenty-two in all, disintegrate completely, soon to be transformed into museums and memorials - sanitized and less palpable reminders. Devoid of life and human form, the walls and landscapes of the camps speak loudly of the death and horror that once existed there. Hartmann's photographs have the intensity of poetry, creating a deeply moving remembrance of the camps, and a powerful reminder of the evils of intolerance, racism, prejudice, and the horrors of ethnic cleansing that still remain pervasive today.Editorials
George Cohen
Hartmann and his parents, his brother, and his sister fled Germany in 1938 for the U.S. Hartmann, a Jew, was 16 at the time. Presented here are 74 stark black-and-white photographs by him, along with text, showing 31 Nazi concentration camps as they are today, 50 years after their liberation by the Allied armies. We see the barbed wire fences surrounding Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buchenwald, Majdanek, and Natzweiler; the railroad tracks leading to Buchenwald, Theresienstadt, Sobibor, Treblinka, and Auschwitz; the guard towers of Majdanek; and the gates of Buchenwald, Dachau, and Birkenau. There are photos of stacks of shoes, suitcases, artificial limbs, and children's clothes in Auschwitz; photos of wooden barracks in Birkenau and Buchenwald; and dissection tables for medical experiments on inmates in Sachsenhausen, Vught, and Mauthausen. Hartmann has photographed the gas chambers in Majdanek, Mauthausen, and Auschwitz and the crematoriums in Ravensbruck, Sachsenhausen, and Dachau. The result is a haunting reminder of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust.Book Details
Published
May 1, 1995
Publisher
Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Pages
111
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780393037722