Photography and Captions by Alan Jacobs.
"In 1979, The Auschwitz Museum Archive reproduced selected pieces
of art and sent them to writer/photographer Alan Jacobs.
After years of related work and many more trips, Jacobs, and
his son Jesse, returned to the camps in 1996 to find and photograph
the identical scenes depicted in the art. Krysia Jacobs then
devised a way to present them as you see here. They are the
result
of work over a 24 year period.
This exhibit contrasts contemporary photographs of these two camps, with images of what they were like 1940-45 as remembered by artist-survivors. Much of the art was created soon after their liberation. Their art is the only visual record of day-to-day existence in Auschwitz/Birkenau." - Alan Jacobs
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