Auschwitz: Not Long Ago. Not Far Away.

Authors: Luis Ferreiro, Miriam Greenbaum

Editor: Robert Jan van Pelt

This is the catalog of the first-ever traveling exhibition about the Auschwitz concentration camp, where 1.1 million people—mostly Jews, but also non-Jewish Poles, Roma, and others—lost their lives.

More than 280 objects and images from the exhibition are illustrated in this book. Drawn from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum and other collections around the world, they range from the intimate (victims’ family snapshots and personal belongings) to the immense (an actual surviving barrack from the Auschwitz III [Buna-Monowitz] satellite camp). All are eloquent in their testimony.

An authoritative yet accessible text weaves the stories behind these artifacts into an encompassing history of Auschwitz—from a Polish town at the crossroads of Europe to the dark center of the Holocaust to a powerful site of remembrance. 

Hardback

240 pages