The Auschwitz Album- Visual Evidence of the Process Leading to the Mass Murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau

The Auschwitz Album is the only surviving visual evidence of the process leading to the mass murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is a unique document and was donated to Yad Vashem by Lilly Jacob-Zelmanovic Meier.

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[nataliapalovcak]

Seeing the mother's holding their children didn't break the hearts of mortal man? How could humans be so cruel?

[chicochester]

poor defenseless children you will never be forgotten

[leonorlopezlacanina]

If we don't watch it, even if we cry, no one will remember his faces. We have to be brave and see them and pray for their souls.

[TS-xvjn]

I cry the minute I see these faces... I hate to watch but it gives value to their lives to be loved and cried for...

[vlatkacobain]

I was in aushwitz and birkenau in a now museum complex. It was late August, and UT WAS VERY VERY COLD. As you enter the buildings, these pictures are all over the walls, enlarged, and videos in projection playing around you. You are in dark. And have headphones listening to the guide. It is made like that so you feel (and trust me you do) like another person between all these people we see on pics. As you walk around you always find yourself standing near a ceramic like large block, larger than you and wider. Those are filled with ashes of people. Left since found. It was truly the most disturbing day in my life. I haven't slept in days, had flashes for a year, a couldn't look in distance as all I would see is flashes of chimneys at a large field, birkenau. Hurts to this day. It was a part of our high school last trip. And I think it should be mandatory for the whole world to see it as they turn 18.

[paulbarber]

Horrifying. I can't even imagine how people can be so cruel.

[nattygsbord]

Imagine you and your family arriving at such a place and knowing that your parents and siblings will all be dead within a few minutes.. all horror and sorrow those poor souls must have felt.

[TomRivieremusic]

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. –Voltaire

[jb]

World War II was the deadliest military conflict in history. An estimated total 70-85 million people perished, which was about 3% of the 1940 world population (est. 2.3 billion).

[Succeshero-ywrl]

So ashamed that has happened! My grandfather fought against the nazis and told me he has never seen such vile creatures in his life. BLESSINGS TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE FROM THE NETHERLANDS

[elisefincher]

I can never even begin to understand how inhumane evil and cruel people could possibly be and never will understand how those who committed these atrocities could possibly live with themselves and their crimes. No human deserves to be treated like this and tortured the way these poor people were.

[summerbeatty]

Just turned 31 ... Can't believe this happened bout 40 years before I was born wow🙏😟

[frankgalassi]

I'm look at the children and their mothers and fathers with my eyes full of tears.

[peterremkes]

And if we don't watch it, it's going to happen again somewhere. Because we never learn of the past.

[Karan-wzpt]

Humans are the only bad thing ever happend to this beautiful Earth.

[anandaariannamorningstar]

Didn't expect to cry watching this. Can't imagine all the heartbreak and suffering these poor people have been through.

[nikolairomanoff]

So tragic to see these people especially the children going through this, not knowing they are going to die soon. I am beyond words how other human beings can do this to another human beings especially on children. Never Forget

[chuckjendrzejczyk]

I cannot even BEGIN to imagine what these people were thinking and/or going through. How horrible! I lived next to a woman who had been in Dachau and I can see, or at least, try to see, why she never wanted to talk about it. These innocent people definately have a place in heaven!

[lisaoldwithsomanywhys]

i am still shocked by how we “humans” were capable of such tragedy 😭

[tribhuwanchandrajoshi]

such a horror scene. Difficult to belive such horrible persons existed on earth.