«How the Nazis photographed their crimes. Auschwitz 1944», the new exhibition of the Shoah Memorial new!

The exhibition brings new keys to the main photographic ensemble showing the process that led to the mass massacre at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

This photographic album, commonly called the Auschwitz Album, was produced by the SS to testify to the Nazi dignitaries of the perfect mastery of extermination operations on the site. It contains some of the most emblematic images of the Shoah. These photographs, known since the early 1950s, served as evidence during the trials of some of the leaders of the "Final Solution".

Since the rediscovery of the complete album in the 1980s, and thanks to the work recently undertaken by the historian Tal Bruttmann, scientific curator of the exhibition, a new reading is needed.

Our gaze is called upon to detect in the photographs what wanted to be hidden there by their authors and of which we were not aware until then. This dive into the images reveals to us the gigantic site that was necessary for the implementation of the extermination of the Jews on the site of Auschwitz. The clues allow us to understand the organization of deportation and "selection", see the violence and its sounds, the cynicism of its organizers, but also the flaws in the so-called secret process of its implementation and finally the resistance of the victims, often denied.

80 years after the discovery of the camp by the Red Army on 27 January 1945, the Album d'Auschwitz testifies to the functioning of the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center at its peak: summer 1944 and the deportation of the Jews from Hungary.

Discover the cycle of meetings around the exhibition 

Scientific Commissioner: Tal Bruttmann, historian, with ChristophKreutzmüller.

Museography and coordination: Sophie Nagiscarde, Natacha Nisic.

Scenography: RF Studio, Ramy Fischler, Nicolas Tsan.

Texts by Tal Bruttmann and Christoph Kreutzmüller.