70 years after Auschwitz liberation, a survivor remembers
"Shoah" 'Oskar Schindler's List' AUSCHWITZ-Speilberg-Williams-Stafford,Piano Rendition Theme
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| A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in January,1945, shows a group of children wearing concentration camp uniforms behind barbed wire fencing in the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp. The theme music from "Schindler's List" 
Aerial Photography of Auschwitz Concentration Camp : The Archival Research Catalog (ARC) is the online catalog of NARA's nationwide holdings in the Washington, DC area, Regional Archives and Presidential Libraries. ARC replaces its prototype, the NARA Archival Information Locator (NAIL).
"Nearly 100 hundred aerial photographs of the Auschwitz death camp are available from the NAIL datatabase. Search NAIl and type in "NWDNC-263-AUSCHWITZ" or "NWDNC-373-AERIALFILM" in the ditigal copies box."
NY Times: How Auschwitz Is Misunderstood AUSCHWITZ was liberated 70 years ago, on Jan. 27, 1945, and news of its existence shocked the world. With its principal killing center at one of its main camps, Auschwitz-Birkenau, becoming fully operational in 1942, it was Germany’s largest and the most notorious extermination site. There the Germans slaughtered approximately 1.1 million people, a million of whom were Jews. Its mention evokes notions of evil and instant horror. Auschwitz was a death factory, an oxymoron that would have made no sense before the Holocaust, but that now is effortlessly comprehensible.
Below: the iconic image of Auschwitz:
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The "Shoah", or "the Holocaust" "The Holocaust (from tthe Greek ὁλόκαυστος holókaustos: hólos, "whole" and kaustós, "burnt"), also known as theShoah (Hebrew: השואה, HaShoah, "the catastrophe"), was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. An additional five million non-Jewish victims of Nazi mass murders are included by some historians bringing the total to approximately eleven million. Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany and German-occupied territories".
Yad Vashem; The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority
2 comments:
How very timely, since I am reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich right now. I have visited Dachau several times and it just takes your breath away to think about what happened in these camps. I encountered an old man, sitting on a bench near the crematorium, who heard my voice and asked whether I was an American. When I affirmed that I was, he said, "I was a prisoner in this camp. I have come here every day for the past 33 years, to listen for the sound of an American voice and simply plead 'please make sure this never happens again' " and I will never forget that simple request as long as I live.
My uncle was with Paton's army and went up through Italy and on to Germany. He could hear the Germans talking across the river when they were camped on the banks of the Rhine. Someone made a noise and a German called out to identify themselves. My uncle knew German and answered back, saving the moment. He helped liberate one of the camps, can't remember which one as I was quite young and wasn't supposed to hear his stories. I snuck a peek of some photos he had and remember seeing naked, skinny bodies stacked in a huge oven
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