This January day commemorates the liberation of Auschwitz in the south of German-occupied Poland, near Krakow, by the Russians.
The motto over the entrance to the camp was Arbeit macht frei. Work makes you free. Those who could not work, children, the elderly, the disabled, were selected and sent straight to their deaths.
I remember reading about a survivor who learned that her parents were sent straight to be killed. I was horrified. I thought she would be upset. On the contrary. She was relieved that her parents did not have to witness the horror of the roll calls, watching people being executed.
Survivors. After six months, children had survived, now well-fed, were brought back to the camp for a photo to show who the Russians had liberated. Whilst they might have been relieved to see each other, I cannot imagine that the children were happy to be back.
Useful Websites
HISTORY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp
2023 NEWS
MUSEUMS TO VISIT IN POLAND
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz-Birkenau_State_Museum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majdanek_State_Museum
Photos
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Konzentrationslager_Majdanek
UKRAINE - Memorial in Ukraine, Babi Yar
UK Holocaust Museum
USA Holocaust museum
https://www.ushmm.org/online/ihrd/2023/
ISRAEL
VENEZUELA
Star of David shape Shoah memorial in Jewish cemetery in Caracus, Venezuela
Holocaust memorials and museums worldwide
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Holocaust_memorials_and_museums
A happy story of a survivor and the rescuing family in Belgium
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