The most gripping thing about this show is the sheer ordinariness of pictures. The world has, sadly, grown accustomed to seeing the horrific photographs from death camps, but these images are as innocent as the victims they portray. The smiling faces looking down from the erected panels show childern at play, in summer camps and in the protective environs of their home; or sometimes, in the stilted, but safe studios of the professional photographer with their parents. The children, as young as two years and as old as 16, were trucked out in numbered caravans often with their parents, but sometimes alone. Only three hundred would survive Auschwitz and some of the other camps associated with the Shoah. Continue

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