Five black-and-white reproductions (four in landscape format, one in portrait format) measuring 8.5 x 11.5 cm and showing the deportation from Gailingen on October 22, 1940, have survived. The pictures show various different scenes that include Jews first being picked up at their places of (forced) residence, the Friedrichsheim (Jewish old age home) and the Israelitisches Krankenhaus (Jewish hospital), then walking with luggage to the Gailingen town hall, and finally boarding trucks. Bystanders and municipal police officers can be seen in almost all of the pictures. Five Jews and one nurse pictured are known by name.

The pictures were probably taken by the photo lab assistant Charlotte Schlenker, whose husband owned a photo store in Gailingen. It is probable that the town authorities commissioned her to take photos of the deportation.

The four photos in landscape format are part of an official photo album of the town of Gailingen which the then town mayor Alois Sproll started creating in 1938 in memory of his predecessor in office. The album contains pictures of local party marches as well as a page titled “Juden-Aktion Oktober 1940” (Operation against Jews October 1940). The number “22.” was added in pencil later. After the end of the Second World War, several pictures were removed from the album and destroyed, including the pictures of the deportation.

The surviving pictures are reproductions belonging to Berta Friesländer-Bloch (1896-1993), who was deported to Gurs herself with her husband and son. Reproductions of the pictures have also been preserved thanks to Ezechiel Hasgall, who emigrated to Palestine with his family in 1936. They are now part of the holdings of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, and of Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart.