A heart-breaking moment from an SS picture of Hungarian Jews at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau taken...

[demmiblue]

A heart-breaking moment from an SS picture of Hungarian Jews at #Auschwitz II-Birkenau taken probably 76 years ago today. #OTD

A little child found a dandelion in the grass and is handing it or showing it to an older boy. All the people in this picture were gassed moments later.

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Never forget.

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Sad and disturbing.

I can honestly say I have never seen that picture. Makes me wonder, though, could it happen again to the Jews? It certainly has happened to other groups on lesser scales, but still in devastating numbers.

[Danmel]

2. One and a half million Jewish children were killed in the Holocaust

That is more than the entire population of North and South Dakota combined.

[BigDemVoter]

3. I think these photos came from "The Auschwitz Album" that was discovered after the war

if I'm not mistaken. Most of them document the murder of 300,000 + Hungarian Jews who were murdered in the spring and summer of 1944. The fucking Nazis just couldn't stop murdering Jews even when they new goddamned well they were going to lose the fucking war. What really bothers me is that most of the guilty parties got off scott free without paying any penalty at all for this god awful act. Yeah, they caught Eichman, but I sure wish they had caught the motherfuckers who were willing to drop Zyklon B pellets through the ceilings of these gas chambers onto the heads of innocent human beings.

My great grandmother and her daughter, my great aunt, were the last of my family members left in Germany at the start of World War II. They didn't have a chance in hell. My great aunt was mentally handicapped and in her 40s. My great grandmother was in her 70s. Not only were they Jews, but they were considered completely and utterly useless, as neither one could work. It was only many years after the war that details were known. The Germans were insidious and sneaky about how they went about murdering people. They performed a "census" of Jews in the region around Mannheim, but the purpose of it was to learn the exact whereabouts of every Jew in the region in order to collect and murder them. Of course, being good law abiding citizens, my great grandmother completed the census honestly only to be separated from her daughter and deported separately to "the East" which meant an ugly death. Her daughter was sent to a ghetto called Izbica which was a "feeder ghetto" for Sobibor, Maidanek, and Treblinka. I had nightmares for years thinking of my mentally handicapped great aunt being sent alone to such a terrible death.

There was an interview published in Germany after the war by someone who had spoken to a witness from Sobibor who described how victims of the gas chamber just "fell out like potatos from an oven" when the doors opened. I still cannot fathom how human beings could treat other humans in such a way.