Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012 – in photos
HOLOCAUST Remembrance Day 2012 – in photos. The remembrance day marks the day of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps 67 years ago. Outside the death camps – beyond those gates with their demonic German joke – survivors gathered. They came to remember. They came to remind us not to forget.
The portraits of Soviet soldiers at a remembrance site at the Sachsenhausen Nazi death are eerie. They stand on a stone field marking a barrack that hosted a so-called “neck-shot facility”. More than 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war were killed in one barrack in 1941. The numbers are too big to comprehend. You can only take in one face at a time…and that can be too much to stand…
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A Polish soldier stands on guard at a key Holocaust remembrance site in the Polish capital on International Holocaust Remembrance Day in Warsaw, Poland, on Jan. 27, 2012. The ceremony took place at Umschlagplatz, the spot where German Nazis in 1942 loaded about 320,000 Jews from the Warsaw ghetto into cattle cars and sent them by train to the Treblinka death camp. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Posted: 27th, January 2012 | In: Reviews Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
