Tuesday, July 11, 2006
How could the world remain silent? 
Former prisoners of the "little camp" in Buchenwald stare out from the wooden bunks in which they slept three to a "bed." Elie Wiesel is pictured in the second row of bunks, seventh from the left, next to the vertical beam. Abraham Hipler is pictured in the second row, fourth from the left. The man on the third bunk from the bottom, third from the left, is Ignacz (Isaac) Berkovicz. [He has also been identified as Abraham Baruch.] Michael Nikolas Gruner, originally from Hungary, is pictured on the bottom left corner. Perry Shulman from Klimitov, Poland is on the top bunk, second from the left (looking up). Buchenwald, Germany, April 16, 1945.
German soldiers lead blindfolded Polish hostages to an execution site. Olkusz, Poland, July 16, 1940.
Polish partisans are hanged by the Nazis. Rovno, Poland, 1942.
Polish citizens hanged by the Nazis in Sosnowiec. Poland, wartime.
SS doctors examine Polish children judged "racially valuable" for adoption by Germans. Poland, October 1942.
The Black Wall, between Block 10 (left) and Block 11 (right) in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where executions of inmates took place. Poland, date unknown.
Hungarian Jews on their way to the gas chambers. Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, May 1944.
Soon after liberation, an emaciated child survivor is carried out of camp barracks by Soviet first-aid workers. Auschwitz, Poland, after January 27, 1945.
Suitcases that belonged to people deported to the Auschwitz camp. This photograph was taken after Soviet forces liberated the camp. Auschwitz, Poland, after January 1945.
Hair of women prisoners, prepared for shipment to Germany, found at the liberation of the Auschwitz extermination camp. Poland, 1945.
Soon after liberation, a Soviet physician examines Auschwitz camp survivors. Poland, February 18, 1945.
Candles mark the railway tracks leading to the Auschwitz camp during the commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the camp. Poland, January 27, 2005.
how can a citizen of a free country not pay attention?how can anyone, anywhere not feel outraged?how can a person, whether religious or secular, not be moved by compassion?and above all, how can anyone who remembers remain silent? silence helps the killer, nvr his victims.
German soldiers lead blindfolded Polish hostages to an execution site. Olkusz, Poland, July 16, 1940.
Polish partisans are hanged by the Nazis. Rovno, Poland, 1942.
Polish citizens hanged by the Nazis in Sosnowiec. Poland, wartime.
