The young SS "helpers" at
Auschwitz concentration camp
Story by Will Croxton 5 days ago
A play that has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, "Here There Are Blueberries," is now telling the story of the historians and archivists who uncovered the identities of the people in the haunting photographs.
The play's title comes from a series of photos in the album— young secretaries who worked under Karl Höcker are seen eating blueberries. A caption next to the photographs reads, "Here there are blueberries."
This week on 60 Minutes, Anderson Cooper reported on a photo album received by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum that turned out to be the personal scrapbook of a high-ranking SS officer, Karl Höcker. Höcker worked at the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp.
The SS "helpers" at Auschwitz
"So how do you lead your daily life and at the same time participate in one of the largest killing machines in the history of mankind?"
Kaufman's co-creator, Amanda Gronich, said she couldn't help but wonder what the young women in the photographs knew about the systematic killing of Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz while they were there.
"And one of the things the play explores is, 'How much did they know? How much did they know about what was going on?'" Gronich said.
Rebecca Erbelding is a historian at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. She received the Höcker album in the mail in 2007. "Here There Are Blueberries" is based on her and her colleagues' investigation of the album.
Cooper viewed the Höcker album with Erbelding at a high-security facility in Maryland where the museum's collections are stored. As she turned the yellowed pages, she revealed the smiling faces of Auschwitz's "helpers" in the "Blueberries" series of images....
Read more of this Jewish spin, here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/th ... tion-camp/
Then compare with a reasonable view of the same photographs at "Lazy Days At Auschwitz" by Douglas Mercer, here on WB: viewtopic.php?f=72&t=6164
