The film uncovers a part of the Holocaust that was once thought to be unrecorded, but thanks to Washington D.C. Holocaust Museum's work there is now documentation and photographic evidence of what life was like behind the fences of the death camp at Auschwitz. This film profiles a series of contrasting photos - one series portrays the banality of evil, while the other profiles the horror of life behind the wire.
Direction
Nelson lets the photos speak. No dramatic score needed.
Editing
Juxtaposition of album pages with survivor testimony destroys you.
Director
Erik Nelson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The Höcker Album was discovered in 2007 in a basement closet by a woman who had inherited it from her late husband, a U.S. Army intelligence officer who took it from a Frankfurt apartment in 1946.
The SS photographers used Kodak film and Leica cameras—the same equipment as American tourists—literally framing genocide through the lens of middle-class leisure.
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