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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Harriet Sherwood

Seeing Auschwitz photographic exhibition opens in London

Renee Salt, 93, an Auschwitz survivor, at the Seeing Auschwitz exhibition.
Renee Salt, 93, an Auschwitz survivor, at the Seeing Auschwitz exhibition. Photograph: PR

They are images of horror: the gates of the most infamous of the Nazi death camps; crowds of people fearfully clutching their children or meagre possessions; the smoking chimneys of the crematoriums where their bodies were burned.

These photographs that have shaped perceptions of Auschwitz were taken by the perpetrators of the Holocaust. They are the records of a job being done: the murder of more than a million people.

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