"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 set showing the process that led to the mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau.

This photographic album, commonly known as the Auschwitz Album, was made by the SS to demonstrate to Nazi dignitaries the perfect mastery of extermination operations at the site. It contains some of the most emblematic images of the Holocaust. These photographs, known since the early 1950s, served as evidence in the trials of some of those responsible for 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 essential.

Our gaze is called to detect in the photographs what wanted to be hidden there by their authors and of which we were not previously aware. This immersion in the images reveals to us the gigantic site which was necessary for the establishment of the extermination of the Jews on the site of Auschwitz. The clues allow us to understand the organization of deportation and "selection", to 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 bears witness to the operation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center at its peak: the summer of 1944 and the deportation of Hungarian Jews.

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.