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In August 1944, members of the Auschwitz Sonderkommando managed to secretly photograph the extermination process at the core of which they were imprisoned. They left behind four photographs. In his book, Georges Didi-Huberman attempts not only to portray the vicissitudes that the secret photographers had to go through but also to create a phenomenology of the pictures taken and to understand their necessity, which is as true today as it was then. In doing so, he starts from an examination of the conditions under which visual sources can be used in the field of history. He then concludes his reflections with a philosophical critique of the idea of the unimaginable with which the Shoah is often associated. He thus attempts to define the extent to which the experience of the camps is, despite everything, imaginable, in order to better understand the value of images in history.