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December 31, 2009
Georges Didi-Huberman Images in Spite of All: Four Photographs from Auschwitz Trans. Shane B. Lillis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 248 pp.; 30 b/w ills. Cloth $35.00 (9780226148168)
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Images in Spite of All is devoted to four images, specifically, the only four of the one-and-a-half million surviving photographs of the Nazi camps to depict the actual process of mass killing. Shot within and immediately outside the gas chambers at Auschwitz’s crematorium V, the images show naked women prisoners herded into the gas chambers and the mass cremation of corpses. Smuggled out of Auschwitz by the Polish resistance, the photographs were taken under the...