Not far from the wire

Alec Wilkinson writes about an album of photographs from Auschwitz:

In the fifty-four days between May 15 and July 8, 1944,... [during] the Hungarian Deportation, four hundred and thirty-four thousand people were put aboard trains to Auschwitz - so many people that the crematoriums, which could dispose of a hundred and thirty-two thousand bodies a month, were overrun.

Click on 'Start slide show' to see some of the photos from the album, with explanatory text. (Thanks: M.)