Discussion in French.
Join us on July 4 at 7 PM for an in-person discussion of “Un album d’Auschwitz: Comment les nazis ont photographié leurs crimes” with one of the authors, Tal Bruttmann, who will be in conversation with journalist and author, Elias Levy.
Between mid-May and early July 1944, hundreds of thousands of Jews from Hungary were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. To show their superiors how well this large-scale logistical operation was being carried out, SS men photographed the arrival of the convoys to the threshold of the gas chambers, or to the camp for the minority who escaped immediate death.
These photographs, known as the “Auschwitz Album,” were found by a survivor, Lili Jacob, after the liberation of the camps, before being used as evidence in various trials.
The discussion will be followed by a bilingual Q&A. Tickets are $5.
The event will be taking place at the Montreal Holocaust Museum – 5151 Chem. de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine.
Tal Bruttmann’s Biography
Tal Bruttmann is a historian specializing in the Holocaust and antisemitism. His work focuses on antisemitic policies in France during the war, as well as the systematic murder of European Jews and the extermination centers. He is notably the author of “Auschwitz” (La Découverte, 2015) and “Les cent mots de la Shoah” with Christophe Tarricone (PUF, 2016), as well as “Microhistories Of The Holocaust” (Berghahn Books, New York, 2016) with Claire Zalc. His latest book, “Un album d’Auschwitz : comment les nazis ont photographié leurs crimes” (Seuil, 2023), written with Stefan Hördler and Christoph Kreutzmüller, is a study dedicated to the photographs taken by the SS at Auschwitz. He also contributed to the script of the graphic novel “Du sang dans la clairière. Mont-Valérien 1941-1944,” alongside historian Antoine Grande and cartoonist Efix.
Elias Levy’s Biography
Elias Levy is a journalist and former editor-in-chief of the French-language section of The Canadian Jewish News. He is currently editor-in-chief of La Voix Sépharade magazine. He is the author of “Comprendre Israël” (Éditions Ulysse, 2012)).
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