The ten photos are pasted into a typewritten manuscript titled “Zur Geschichte der Juden in München” (On the History of the Jews in Munich) written by Michael Meister. The pictures are historical prints. The person who took the photos is unknown, as are the whereabouts of the negatives. Due to the fact that the photos were glued onto the page, the backs of the photos cannot be viewed. The manuscript includes short captions below the photos.

The picture series contains photographs that show Jews arriving at the Milbertshofen assembly camp prior to the deportation to Kaunas on November 20, 1941, the luggage they were carrying, their personal details being checked, and their accommodation in barracks.

The manuscript is in the part of Michael Meister’s (1908 - 1992) estate given to Stadtarchiv München by his descendants in 2000.

A municipal official since 1936, Michael Meister was involved, among other things, in the “Arbeitskreis für Judenangelegenheiten” (Working Group for Jewish Matters), where Munichs’s various administrative offices decided on the "Aryanization" of Jewish businesses. He was also in contact with the Munich-based “Forschungsabteilung zur Judenfrage” (Research Department on the Jewish Question), part of the “Reichsinstitut für die Geschichte des neuen Deutschlands” (Reich Institute for the History of the new Germany).

The surviving manuscript is an academic text covering the period from the first accounts of Jews settling in Munich until the almost complete extinction of the Jewish community in 1945. The diction and the interpretation of the sources used reflect a clearly antisemitic attitude.