The Auschwitz: Oswiecim, Poland

This is a photostory of my visit to The Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland in 2005. This was one of the main concentration camps used by Hitler for purpose of work camps, slavery, and the eventual attempted and failed extermination of the Jewish race, homosexuals, and people with disabilities. Among these millions of victims were several other beautiful souls from diverse backgrounds that gave or had their lives stolen in the events of WWII. The Auschwitz-Birkenau is probably the most well-known of all the concentration camps. A short bus ride from Krakow on a snowy,winter's morning in December 2004. A few of the older pictures are taken from various sources to show comparisons between "then" and "now." All obviously "new or current" photos were taken by myself. This may be graphic for some, PG-13 rating due to WWII photos of the atrocities that took place here. Please visit the official web site of the Memorial Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau at http://www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl/html/eng/start/index.php

Shalom! Pray for the peace of Israel.

The pictures in this montage (aside from 3 that are public domain from historical record) are of my own taken by me personally. The song used in this montage is written and performed by GIORA FEIDMAN & RONIT SHAPIRA-OYF'N PRIPETSHOK / NACHT AKTIO UMG. Full permission of use and rights to use this song on my montage are freely given by this author. I give them many special thanks.

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[JEANETTE60]

I went 2 years ago, the memory will stay with me for the rest of my life, so sad.

[Pathe39]

There was also an epizode that world refuses to remember. Polish Home Army cpt. Pilecki went there as a volountieer. He gathered information then organized an escape. He brought that info to US President, who never belived that Auschwitz was true.

[picark]

This reminds me of "Pol Pot " with his Khmer Rouge Regime in Cambodia that created the "Killing Fields" in the late 1970's that exterminated anyone that wasn't pure Khmer blood.His regime had nearly 3 million people exterminated the largest ethnic cleansing to date since the Holocaust.One quarter of the population of Cambodia.

[bookratt]

@benman45: The Warsaw Uprising included Jews. I also view the Sobibor and Treblinka escapes + similar attempts at other camps as fighting back. In addition, many underground resistance fighters in France, Poland, Hungary, Ukraine, were Jews.

@Pathe39: The Pope, King of England, Pres. of France & others knew, too.

@MissTozzy: You aren't responsible for the past, and you can't atone for your gr-grandfather's shame. Listen without judgement & tell him you love him. The rest is up to him.

[cal8lfc]

i'm going there tomorrow ;( very moving yet very sad at the same time.

[Truth4Everyone]

Really sad that 6 million jews died in camps,shame on these monsters!

[jojojosefo]

@MissTozzy123 You can’t expect your grandfather to be wiser than the millions of people who were nazi around him, we can’t judge the people of the past with the present moral standards and the things we know now. It is terrible, but may be one day our grandchildren will be ashamed of us because we are living comfortably in a world where thousands of people die of hunger everyday and we are doing nothing to stop it. If he still lives, give him a big hug, because probably he is ashamed of himself.

[BNLV]

What's r those Building..?What's NAZI stand for...?

[RationalOutlet]

@MissTozzy123 Children should not carry the burdens of their parents and grandparents.

[MissTozzy123]

im german, and my great grandfather was a nazi.

but i feel so ashamed of it :(

[STHFGDBY]

Auchwitz, THE GATEWAY TO HELL...The Jewish victims among others left to arrive in paradise, The Nazis however remain in torment to pay for their crimes. I believe they burn in ovens much hotter than the ones they used on their victims. Gods angels are their Gaurds.

[clintonearlwalker]

@benman45 There were some attempts at uprising and escape. It seems the Polish underground smuggled dynamite from their work and blew up krema 4 at Birkenau. The women were hanged, thats why there were few uprisings, everyone was hanged and people from the same cell block hanged also. An escape would mean 20 or so from the cell block of the escapee would be starved. There is info on this stuff if u look, no room to post it here.