Holocaust survivor Lili Jacob (later Zelmanovic Meier) discovered an album containing these photographs
Holocaust survivor Lili Jacob (later Zelmanovic Meier) discovered an album containing these photographs in a bedside table in an abandoned SS barracks while she was recovering from typhus shortly after liberation. The photographs, likely taken by someone in the SS, document Jews from Hungary arriving at Auschwitz-Birkenau on May 26, 1944. When first viewing the album, Lili immediately found an image of her rabbi. But upon closer inspection, she discovered a photo of herself as well as many of her neighbors and relatives, including this image of her two younger brothers Yisrael and Zelig Jacob (first photo). Lili brought the album with her when she immigrated to the United States and donated it to Yad Vashem in 1983. She is pictured here (last photo) in the center of the front row, fourth from the left in the middle group, wearing a dress with the deep fabric V with visible buttons. To this day, we do not know why the album was created or who the original owner was. It is speculated tha