Holocaust. Panorama View of Birkenau and 6 Postcards of the Auschwitz Memorial, 1947, 

Photographer Stanislaw Mucha

Series I: The Concentration Camp “Oswiecim” (Oświęcim).

[Auschwitz / Krakow]: Państwowego Muzeum w Oświęcimiu, 1947. Original black and white postcards. Text in four languages: Polish, Russian, English, French. 138 × 89 mm., and a fold-out panorama postcard with measures of 277 × 89 mm.
These images are showing “The Panorama of Brzezinka (Birkenau)” “The Gateway of the Chief Camp” with the infamous worlds “Arbeit Macht Frei”, “The Court of Executions of the 11th Barrack”, “A view of the 11th Barrack”, “The 11th Barrack of Punishment and Death”, “The Lodging of the “Blockfuehrers in the Chief Camp” and “A Komando at work”
Yellowed, due to ageing. Tiny light brown spots.
Early photographic documentation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Published by the recently established Auschwitz Museum in 1947.
The images are not credited, however a larger version of the fold-out panorama view of Birkenau (“The Panorama of Brzezinka (Birkenau) (Section B)”) was also published in the photo-booklet “Oświęcim-Brzezinka. K.L. Auschwitz-Birkenau. (Krakow, 1948) wherein it is attributed to Stanisław Kolowca, a prominent architecture photographer from Kraków, . The rest of the photos are presumably part of the collection of the 138 photographs that Stanislaw Mucha took in 1945 as evidence to be used during the trials of Nazi war criminals.
Scarce and early collection of Holocaust documentation.

Stanisław Mucha (photographer)
Stanisław Mucha (born May 1, 1895 in Olszówka, Limanowa District, Austria-Hungary; died June 2, 1976 in Kraków) was a Polish photographer.
Stanisław Mucha became a soldier in the Polish Legion during World War I and worked as a regimental photographer. Mucha was also a soldier in the Polish-Soviet War of 1921. From 1922 he worked as a photographer for the Kraków Nowości Ilustrowane and was a permanent correspondent for a number of national and international newspapers. From 1928 he had his own studio in Kraków. Mucha took urban and architectural photographs for Adolf Szyszko-Bohusz as well as art photographs.
After the liberation of Poland in 1945, he was commissioned by a Red Army investigative commission to document the Auschwitz concentration camp, and he took 100 photos. Mucha later gave an album with 38 photos and an introduction to the Auschwitz Museum. Other photos from the series are now in the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej (IPN) in Warsaw. His photo of the camp's gatehouse, which became a symbol of Auschwitz and the Holocaust, became particularly well-known.
In 1946, the former resistance fighter Teresa Lasocka-Estreicher came to him with the negative film with the four photos that Alberto Errera, who had been a prisoner in the Sonderkommando, had secretly taken in 1944 of the cremation of the corpses and the route to the gas chamber. Mucha made prints and retouched the blurred photos, which were taken from an oblique angle, in an attempt to make the events clearer.