Review

The Auschwitz Photographer shows a new and poignant angle to the horrors of the Holocaust

By Mark Thomas
May 22 2021 - 12:00am
Young Polish political prisoner Rozalia Kowalczyk was registered under the
number 39845. Picture: Supplied
Young Polish political prisoner Rozalia Kowalczyk was registered under the number 39845. Picture: Supplied
  • The Auschwitz Photographer, by Luca Crippa and Maurizio Onnis. Doubleday, $35

Outside the most elegant store in Berlin stands a U-Bahn destination board, exactly the same colour and size as any other on the city's subway. This one, though, lists the names of concentration camps, appended by a note insisting that "these are the names of stations we must never forget".

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