Monday morning, the morning after the Oscar ceremonies and having seen and loved The Artist I thought I would write today about how refreshing the film had been, a real “feel good" factor.
Then a photo caught my eye and my blog research time was spent looking at 191 more photos taken at Auschwitz in 1944. These document the stages of processing from arrival by train to the walk to the gas chambers and are from an album held in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum.
The photograph that initially caught my eye was part of a new publication, a comparison of then and now, the same settings without the people. The photographer, Pawel Sawicki, comments: I could sense the peculiar emptiness more and more. The people, who were the essence of the pictures in the album, were missing.