Auschwitz Abstract
Tom R. Chambers combines enhanced photographs from "The Auschwitz Album" with his Geometric Abstraction project to pay tribute to and celebrate the lives abused and lost during the Holocaust. Chambers has received permission from Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Rembrance Center, Jerusalem to exhibit his combined project as " Auschwitz Abstract" . "The Auschwitz Album" is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau . It is a unique document and was donated to Yad Vashem by Lilly Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier. The photos were taken at the end of May or beginning of June 1944, either by Ernst Hofmann or by Bernhard Walter, two SS men whose task was to take ID photos and fingerprints of the inmates (not of the Jews who were sent directly to the gas chambers). The photos show the arrival of Hungarian Jews from Carpatho-Ruthenia. Many of them came from the Berehovo Ghetto, which itself was a collecting point fo