![Yuletime, 1944. Karl Höcker lights the candles on the Yule tree. [LCID: album26]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/a73cb356-fc4f-495d-9008-18fc1fb46494.jpeg)
A page from SS officer Karl Höcker’s photo album. The Höcker Album includes 116 pictures taken in and around Auschwitz between May 1944 and January 1945. The photographs on this page show Höcker lighting the candles on a Yule tree. The caption reads “Yuletide Celebration, 1944” (“Julfeier, 1944”).
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