that's what museum officials found so chilling and what moises kaufman spent 14 years creating a playinking, you know, many of the people in my family died in auschwitz. and these are the people who were doing it. and they don't seem to have any remorse. seeing that in a photograph so clearly articulated is terrifying. this is terrifying because they all look so much like us. >> reporter: the photographs may appear unremarkable at first. s.s. officers at dinner parties, drinking, socializing, flirting with their young nazi secretaries. but when these pictures were taken, the germans were losing the war and exterminating more jews in auschwitz than at any other time during the holocaust. several images show an s.s. officer giving his secretaries blueberries while a man plays an accordion. the encryption reads, here, there are blueberries. moises kaufman picked that for the title of his play. >> i wanted the audience to have the experience that we had looking at the photographs. >> what was it about the series of the women eating blueberries that so struck you? >> that they were just, y