The picture series from Lörrach includes 25 black-and-white photographs in landscape format, available as digital prints from negative rolls, showing various steps in the deportation process on October 22, 1940. They document the arrival of the Jews by truck at the Alte Handelsschule, where they were registered. Most of the pictures show the persecuted people leaving the building and boarding waiting trucks provided by the municipal police. The series ends with the departure of the trucks from the market square. Officers of the municipal and security police stand guard and supervise the proceedings. In almost all of the images, bystanders observe what is going on at close quarters, sometimes from elevated positions. Five of the persecuted persons in the pictures are known by name.

It was probably police officer Gustav Kühner who took the photos of the deportation on behalf of the Landratsamt (district administration) in Lörrach.

In 1978, the municipal building authority in Lörrach handed over a small red box labeled "Aufnahmen vor 1945" (photographs taken before 1945) and 15 original negative rolls to Stadtarchiv Lörrach. In addition to local events from the war years, they contained 25 pictures of the deportation to Gurs and 17 pictures of the public auctions of the deportees' household goods in November and December 1940. It is not known how the building authority came to be in possession of the photographs.

The Stadtarchiv initially had prints made, digital copies followed later. It published some pictures in 1988 and showed individual photographs in a local exhibition in 2000. In 2002, Klaus Hesse and Philipp Springer were the first to comment on and contextualize 22 pictures from the two series for the Topography of Terror Foundation. In 2010, the Stadtarchiv showed the pictures of the deportation and the pictures of the auctions together in an exhibition.