The Last Album

The Last Album
EYES FROM THE ASHES OF AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU

by Ann Weiss

Published by: W.W. Norton & Company

The Last Album is a collection of over 400 remarkable photographs. It traces the story of how families arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau and how the author came to see them through what was essentially a fortuitous accident. Ann Weiss identified as many people and places in the photos as possible, traveling around the world to track down remaining family members and friends, and listening to stories of the inmates' lives before being removed to the camp. Several of these accounts are described in the book.

Contents
Dedication	9
Foreword	13
Introduction	16
Eyes from the Ashes	20
Background and History of the Photographs The Photos Are Saved at Auschwitz— Birkenau	36
The Photographs	39
The Bendin Orphanage	54
The Bes Yaacov School	56
The Rappaport School	58
Furstenburg Gymnasium	60
Szancerowa School	67
Hasidim	96
Zionism	100
Robert Desnos	112
The Families	119
The Cukierman Family	120
The Diament Family	134
Manya Fuchs and Viktor Goldman	137
The Gitter and Stawski Families	138
Roselena and Werner Hirsch	141
The Huppert Family	144
The Kohn and Broder Families	156
The Koplowicz Family	174
The Malach Family	186
Genya Gutfreund Manela	194
Moshe Manela	196
The Monka and Rosen Families	198
The Strochlitz Family	206
Josef "Yossel" Rosensaft	212
Yaacov Yaakobovicz and Annya Igra	215
Afterword	216
Acknowledgments	218
Index	222

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