Alan Jacobs Exhibits
Auschwitz Fence Lamp – The Wires
The Wires
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Auschwitz I
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Auschwitz/Birkenau Anteroom to the Gas
Anteroom to the Gas
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The Hospital Block courtyard at Auschwitz.
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Children of Survivors
Babi Yar Poem By Yevgeni Yevtushenko
Return to Witnesses' "Growing up in Russia, I experienced antisemitism; personally directed, ubiquitous, and violent,covertly approved of by the government. Yevgeni Yevtushenko's poem, written to expose the inhumanity of Babi Yar, and the subsequent injustice...
Alan Jacobs Exhibits
Birkenau Guard Tower on the Ramp
Birkenau Guard tower
squatting over the unloading ramp at Birkenau, seeming still to cast about its antennae, looking for prey.
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Birkenau Women’s Camp – Barrack BIb (#2)
Birkenau Women's Camp Barrack BIb (#2)
One understands former prisoner-author Elie Wiesel’s title “Night” somewhat more deeply after even “visiting” here.
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Birkenau Women’s Barrack BIb (#1)
Birkenau Women's Barrack BIb
Barrack consisting of “sixty-two bays each with three ‘roosts’.
A roost was originally supposed to hold three prisoners, but Bischoff’s numerology increased the capacity to four.
To sleep, to sit, and keep...
Alan Jacobs Exhibits
Birkenau Women’s Gate – Now and Then
Birkenau Gate to the Women’s Camp
The gate at Birkenau where women prisoners were marched from their barracks to and from slave-labor. This drawing is one in a series by former prisoner and survivor, artist Mieczyslaw...

