Auschwitz & Birkenau

tomnovytomnovy Registered Users Posts: 1,102 SmugMug Employee
edited July 7, 2010 in Journeys
This Year (2010) I decided to visit Aushwitz & Birkenau - The German Death Camps based in Poland near Krakow. I knew from the beginning that the place would be heartbreaking - but I did not expect such a big impact from the Second World War History. People were dying because of their nationality, sexuality, disability etc. No mercy for children! The visit changed my point of view on the War and human cruelty.

Here are some photos - taken in very bad light (flash was not allowed):
Block 24a
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Dolly... one of the toys brought by Jewish kids...
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Tones of hair in Auschwitz... This is one of the most hitting places in Auschwitz - tones of hair in one of the exchibiton blocks. It is human hair... used as a material for clothes, brushes, etc...
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  • Chrissiebeez_NLChrissiebeez_NL Registered Users Posts: 1,295 Major grins
    edited July 5, 2010
    It's horrifying to imagine..

    Thanks for sharing your shots and narrative here, if you have more shots, please post
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  • tomnovytomnovy Registered Users Posts: 1,102 SmugMug Employee
    edited July 5, 2010
    Thank you very much - all of my images from aushwitz you can find on my website by clicking here
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  • Awais YaqubAwais Yaqub Registered Users Posts: 10,572 Major grins
    edited July 6, 2010
    very sad, you shot some amazing photos.

    thanks for sharing.
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  • rpcrowerpcrowe Registered Users Posts: 733 Major grins
    edited July 6, 2010
    Good Job
    The places and the very idea of the extermination camps is horrifying. As a child in Brooklyn, New York, I knew many people who were survivors of the Holocaust. I knew because they had numbers tattooed on their arms.
  • fstop_jorikfstop_jorik Registered Users Posts: 6 Beginner grinner
    edited July 6, 2010
    Germany Images
    Thanks for posting those images, I think unless one has been to one of these sites, the atrocities committed there is hard to comprehend. We were in Dachau near Munich in the early winter, and the cold miserable weather really did a lot to emphasize the reality of what happened there....
  • fstop_jorikfstop_jorik Registered Users Posts: 6 Beginner grinner
    edited July 6, 2010
    Dachau
    This spoke so much to me. Reality in words...
  • tomnovytomnovy Registered Users Posts: 1,102 SmugMug Employee
    edited July 7, 2010
    Thank you all for the comments and the beautiful photos!
    I remember back in Poland when I was in the primary school we had a visitor - a survivor from Auschwitz and he was showing us the numbers on his body and he told us many stories. I remember one which stroke me very hard - on Christmass the prisoners brought to the baraks an old Christmass tree - without needles, on the tree they hang dead new born babies to show the prisoners that it was forbiden to have kids in the camp. That was horrifying! I hope I will not uppset anyone with that storry - but thats the true. Horryfying true! (sorry for my english).
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