Photographing the holocaust : interpretations of the evidence.

From the "blurb":
"Atrocities by the Nazis during the Holocaust were photographed more intensively than any others, before or since. These images have been subjected to a perplexing variety of treatments: variously ingnored, suppressed, distorted and - above all - exploited for propaganda purposes.
This book is the history of this aspect of the Holocaust and its aftermath. It tells a story that begins with the taking of photographs of many kinds and in varied circumstances by all the protagonists in Wolrd War II, including the Nazis, their collaborators and the 'soldier tourists' in the ghettos; by the Jews themselves, their sympathisers and the resistance movements in the occupied territories; and by the Allied forces at the end of the war.
This book also asks many questions, inlcusing whether or not these images can serve as 'evidence', as true representations of the events they were depicting. Their provenance and true meaning, Janina Struk argues, have more often than not taken second place to the uses to which political interests have tried to put them, from the desperate attempts of war-time underground organisations to prove what was happening in the ghettos and camps to the memorial museums of Europe, the US and Israel today.
This book recounts the history of the use and abuse of Holocaust photographs and illustrates the stories it tells and the questions it explores whith a wide reange of photographs, including a number never published before."
Contents : /
Introduction : a photograph from the archives -- Photography and National Socialism 1933-39 -- Photographs as evidence -- Armed with a camera -- Cameras in the ghettos -- Cameras in the camps -- Liberations -- Constructing the post-war memory : 'Don't mention the Jews' -- Commercializing the Holocaust : 'There's no business like Shoah business' -- Interpretations of the evidence -- Dying for eternity.