Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.

This book tells a story to shake the conscience of the world It is the catalogue of the first-ever travelling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others lost their lives. More than 280 objects and images from the exhibition are illustrated. Drawn from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and other collections around the world, they range from the intimate (such as victims’ family snapshots and personal belongings) to the immense (an actual surviving barrack from the Auschwitz III Monowitz satellite camp); all are eloquent in their testimony. An authoritative yet accessible text weaves the stories behind these artefacts into an encompassing history of Auschwitz from a Polish town at the crossroads of Europe, to the dark centre of the Holocaust, to a powerful site of remembrance.> – ASIN: 0789213311 | ISBN13: 9780789213310 | ISBN-13: 978-0789213310