In the 5 yrs that Auschwitz was operating, approximately 1.1 million people were killed there.
1 million Jewish people
72,500 Polish people
21,000 Roma/Sinti people
15,000 Soviet POW’s
12,500 other European people
"The images are being revealed for the first time now to mark today’s International #HolocaustRemembranceDay and the German research project #LastSeen has made them available on its website. Anyone who recognises a face in one of the scenes should contact the project by email... The German #research is being run by the Freie Universität in Berlin, which holds a library of hundreds of other photos documenting the expulsions that were carried out by the Nazis."
If you haven’t seen SHOAH (one of the great and most powerful documentaries ever made about the Holocaust) set your DVR now. Nine hours. Shown in two parts at TCM starting at 12pm East/9am Pacific TODAY.
A "stumbling stone" marker in the pavement reminding today's inhabitants of my town that neighbours were deported and murdered under their predecessor's eyes, on their watch. #HolocaustRemembranceDay.
Ruth Olschowski was 40 when she was deported and murdered in Auschwitz, as was her son Hans-Peter. Both had been separately living in hiding until then, hoping to escape.
As @afelia reminded everybody, the Shoah did not begin with gas chambers.
It's #HolocaustRemembranceDay, a day to remember the victims. As well as millions of #Jews, all sorts of other "undesirables" were murdered. #Trans, gays, romany, disabled people, all murdered.
The village of #Lidice in what is now Czechia, was completely destroyed. The men were shot, the women and kids sent to death camps. They even dug up the graves, landscaped the area, and reissued maps with it removed. The nazis were determined that it should be forgotten.
The joint Muslim-Jewish observance of International #HolocaustRemembranceDay at Srebrenica Memorial Center in #Srebrenica, #Bosnia and Herzegovina commemorating the victims of past genocides is a beacon of hope at a time when divisions often seem insurmountable.