rikaorlanda:Auschwitz was the most infamous of Hitler’s concentration camps, so for the 70th anniver

rikaorlanda:Auschwitz was the most infamous of Hitler’s concentration camps, so for the 70th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation today, Reuters sat down with the remaining survivors of the camp to record their memories and take their portraits. The result was a powerful and historically significant photo series.Auschwitz-Birkenau was located in occupied Poland. It is estimated that approximately 1.5 million people, most of them Jews, were killed there during its time of operation. Fittingly, it became one of the biggest monuments to the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust.About 200,000 were saved when the camp was liberated by the advancing Red Army on January 27, 1945. Of the survivors, 300 still live.Auschwitz death camp survivor Eva Fahidi, 90, holds a picture of her family, who were all killed in the concentration camp during World War Two, as she poses for a portrait in Budapest January 12, 2015. Fahidi was 18 in 1944 when she and her family were moved from Debrecen to Auschwitz-Birkenau.” “During the Warsaw Uprising in August, 1944, when Bogucka was 19, she and her mother were sent from their house to a camp in Pruszkow and then moved on August 12, 1944 by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau.”“Maria Stroinska was 12-years-old during the Warsaw Uprising when she and her sister were sent from their house to a camp in Pruszkow before she was moved alone by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau.” “Marian Majerowicz was 17 when he was sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. At the camp he was briefly reunited with his father, who told him that his mother and younger brother were both killed in the gas chambers. Majerowicz’s father didn’t survive the war.” Image credits: REUTERS/Kacper Pempel -- source link

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