Inside an SS officer’s Auschwitz photo album

Inside an SS officer’s Auschwitz photo album

In 2007, Dr. Rebecca Erbelding, an archivist at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, was sent an album of old photographs, apparently taken in Europe in the 1940s. Nothing strange about that: her role at the museum has seen her receive donations of wartime memorabilia – letters, diaries, mementos, snapshots – almost … Read more