Auschwitz Album

[Murph]

The Auschwitz Album

Hard to watch, but instructive.

[donlfaulkner]

Sobering.

[kenw]

May the world never forget.

[babybluetx23]

very powerfull! I have grown up in a jewish home so the concentration camps are never forgotten. we study about them at a very young age. there is a holocaust museum in downtown dallas that has all kinds of photos, and educational materials in it. it is a very sobering experience to go through it. i havent been to the one in downtown dallas. i went to it when it was still at the jewish community center. when it was there the first thing you saw was an actual boxcar from one of the concentration camps. they load as many people as they can and tell the story of how people were packed in those cattle cars and taken to concentration camps. its a very eerie feeling to be standing in one of those cars. thank you for sharing this on the forum. shalom aleichem

[PIC]

Very Interesting and may it be well preserved for history to recall.

After viewing ... I wondered what the Nazi Photographers and those employed by thought of their work at that time and in post war documentation ...
So I looked into it a bit - see ...
Photographer tricked Nazis to save Auschwitz images (page 1) < News Focus | Expatica Germany

Videocrux - 38,000 photos of prisoners are at the Auschwitz museum.

Wilhelm Brasse used to be the official photographer at the Auschwitz death camp. He was a Polish POW and most of the pictures of Auschwitz are his. He manged to save many pictures despite the Nazis ordering all photos destroyed. He could not photograph after the war due to still seeing the hordid images thru his viewfinder.

[miffed67]

Speaking of the Holocaust, the Civil Rights Museum in Memphis used to have an AWESOME Holocaust section. I was literally crying by the time I left that room. It was at the beginning of the museum (which uses part of the Lorraine Hotel where Dr. MLK, Jr. was assassinated, for those who haven't been there, it's a must-see if you're ever in Memphis), and was basically just the 4 walls of that room with 18 x 20 pictures of Holocaust survivors hung all around, probably 60 of them or so, almost all of them residents of Tennessee, if I recall. Below each person's picture was a paragraph or two that each of them narrated, telling their stories, their remembrances, in their own words. Very powerful.

Thank you for this post, I'm a history buff, especially WWII and the Holocaust. My daughter's class will be going to the Holocaust Museum in Dallas in February, I plan on chaperoning so I can go too....can't wait! I've never been there and I've heard it's very interesting.

[Murph]

YouTube - Shoah- Simon Srebnik returns to Chelmno

The last survivor

[Rson]

I went to Auscwitz, it is incredibly moving. You ever get the 6th sense that there is something more there....i have never had that feeling until I went there. Like a overwhelming blanket of sorrow. The place is incredibly moving.

[texxter]

Murph, thank you for sharing the album, I had no idea it existed.

Originally Posted by Rson

I went to Auscwitz, it is incredibly moving. You ever get the 6th sense that there is something more there....i have never had that feeling until I went there. Like a overwhelming blanket of sorrow. The place is incredibly moving.

I had the same feeling when I visited Auschwitz in 1997. I was there with a colleage from work and we were so moved by what we saw there that we were unable to speak to each other for hours. Reading about it does not compare to the overwhelming feeling of senseless loss that overcame me while I was there. I did take some pics, which, of course, are unable to convey this feeling.

This is where the trains loaded with people came into Auschwitz - very recognizable if you watched the movie "Schindler's List" - it looks so harmless too.

[miffed67]

I've never been to Auschwitz, but I have been to Dachau, just outside of Munich. You get that same overwhelming sense of loss and sorrow there, too. It was an actual presence you could feel all around you, and it raised the hairs on the back of my neck. I've never forgotten it and it's been almost 20 years since I was there.