Auschwitz/Birkenau Photographs by Alan Jacobs

Alan Jacobs made his first trip to Auschwitz in 1979. Over the next 25 years he returned eight times to Auschwitz, Birkenau, and Mauthausen — photographing the camps, interviewing survivors, and spending hours with artifacts and photographs in the Auschwitz Museum Archives.

His photography and his collaboration with Remember.org produced the Virtual Tour of Auschwitz and Birkenau, which won first prize in an Adobe worldwide competition.

A psychotherapist, author, and independent researcher, Jacobs wrote on autocratic power, nationalism, and the conditions that produce genocide. He received the 1996 Eric Berne Memorial Award for social applications of theory. He was also the editor of Idea, an e-journal dedicated to discussion of cults, totalism, autocracy, and genocide. His work on Remember.org was built in close collaboration with his wife Krysia Jacobs