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These Hungarian brothers have just gotten off the deportatation trains and are standing on the ramp at Aushchwitz-Birkenau. Notice the look on their faces from what they are seeing. They are clearly two frightened and bewildered boys. The boys are on the women and children's side meaning that they will be selected for immediate death in the gas chambers. The caps they are wearing may be Scout caps. The younger boy may not have a Star because of his age. The boys are Yisrael and Zelig Jacob. They were deported with their older sister Lili Jacob who is not in the photograph. Lili somehow managed to survive. When she was leaving the concentration camp she found what has become known as the Auschwitz Album. In it are photographs of her family taken the day they arrived in 1944. They were separated. Lili to be a worker but the rest deamed unfit for work and were murdered. These photographs about the killing process Auschwitz come from this collection of photographs taken by two SS men. No one knows for sure why the SS photographers took the pictures, but it is presumably because they wanted to record for history their involvement in what they sas as a 'great' effort. Notice how the younger boy is looking into the face of the SS photographer. Most of the photographs he took were group shots. This was a rare photograph when he focused in on individuals. It is not clear why the boys attracted his interest.
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