 Posted Thursday, September 20, 2007
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Next week, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will feature an online display of a photo scrapbook that depicts the day-to-day lives of Auschwitz's SS officers. It was donated to the museum by a former United States Army intelligence officer who found the photographs over 60 years ago in Germany.
The comparisons between the albums are both poignant and obvious, as they juxtapose the comfortable daily lives of the guards with the horrific reality within the camp, where thousands were starving and 1.1 million died.
The New York Times has a slideshow with audio commentary by Rebecca Erbelding, an archivist at the the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
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Posted Thursday, September 20, 2007
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| I visited Auschwitz a few years ago while on a trip to Krakow. It is a very poignant place and really can be quite 'spooky'. The sense of what happened still lingers today. I visited Belsen many years ago and unlike Auschwitz , Belsen is now a huge memorial park. Everybody I have ever spoken to who has been there all comment on one thing......the total silence ! You are in the middle of Luneberg Heath with trees, birds etc. but the moment you pass through the gates the silence hits you.....no wind,no bees, no birds singing. If anyone who visits isn't affected then there must be something wrong. I recently found out my Uncle was in the first troops to 'open' Belsen but whether I will be able to get him to talk about it, I don't know. The Leger tour 'Anne Frank & Oskar Schindler' is another I have on my list to do. RMA
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Posted Thursday, September 20, 2007
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| Many years ago we "visited" Belsen whilst staying with the wife's cousin whose husband was stationed at Bergen-Belsen. The silence was deafening and utterly chilling and the horror was still palpable in the buildings, the air, the ground in fact everywhere you went. Lots of rumours about sealed-off and flooded underground chambers where "perverted science" had been carried out. A truly horrible place but equally proof that the Nazi tyranny had to be stopped, no matter what the cost. So to those brave men, women & children who suffered as a result and those who fought to overthrow Hitler - "We will remember them"
Lest we forget
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