An album of old photographs arrived at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 2007, sent by an unknown donor. In its pages lie rare glimpses of SS officers stationed at Auschwitz, offering an unsettling look into the day-to-day life of the camp’s perpetrators.

Ivan Klima, a Czech writer, dissident, teacher, and critic, has died at age 94. Profoundly marked by his boyhood incarceration in the Terezín concentration camp near Prague, he channeled his experiences into a lifetime of writing that defended free thought in Czechoslovakia and beyond.