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All photos were taken during our visit in January 2000. |
Pictured here is the main brick gate with watchtower, a familiar scene from films and historical books. |
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The entrance at Birkenau Auschwitz II. |
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. --- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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History is the truth that is meant to illuminate the past to guard us against the repetition of our mistakes of other days. We cannot join in the rewriting of history to make it conform to our comfort and convenience. --- Claude G. Bowers |
Beds in the wooden barracks where prisoners shared 4 to a bunk. |
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A guard's observation tower at Birkenau. |
The world is too dangerous to live in - not because
of the people who do evil, but because of the people who sit and let
it happen. --- Albert Einstein
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"Around us, everyone was weeping. Someone began to recite the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I do not know if it has ever happened before, in the long history of the Jews, that people have ever recited the prayer for the dead for themselves. " Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, in his book "Night." |
The electrified border fence at Auschwitz. |
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The view from inside Birkenau. |
Violence is an expression of impotence. --- Hannah Arendt |
The ruins from the gas chambers which was destroyed by the Nazis in an attempt to cover up all the evidence of their crimes.
The gates at block 11 which lead to the courtyard where thousands of executions took place.
Links to related sites
The Auschwitz Museum Website: http://www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl/html/eng/start/index.html
Auschwitz and Birkenau Homesite: http://home4.swipnet.se/~w-49276/docs/auschwitz/welcome.htm
Holocaust and Oskar Schindler: http://home8.inet.tele.dk/aaaa/Schindler2.htm
Auschwitz and Birkenau: http://www.nat.k12.la.us/ta/ee98/aus.htm
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All photos were taken by (and belong to) Susan Penhall.