People place memory plaques on rails in Birkenau during the annual March of the Living at the former Nazi Death Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, in Oswiecim, southern Poland.
The Hospital Block courtyard at Auschwitz.
The main entrance to Birkenau viewed from the unloading ramp.
The spotlight in the main tower over the entrance to the unloading ramp at Birkenau. Under it rolled the transports bringing mostly Jews, but also Gypsies and others, to their deaths.
Simple enamel containers, stacked and at rest now, in the Auschwitz Museum Archive. A multipurpose utility: dish, bowl, wash basin, pillow, chamber pot.
- posted on 05/02/2008
Prisoners' wooden shoes at the Auschwitz Museum Archives. They were the source of much pain, suffering and death. Ill fitting and rough, they caused blisters and sores, even fatal infection due to prisoner's weakened immune systems.
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Inside the collapsed roof of Krematorium II at Birkenau, blown up by the Nazis before the evacuation of the camp. Outside, is a path from the women's camp, one barracks of which can be seen beyond the trees. Krematoria II and III were the largest gasssing and cremation facilities in the entire Nazi universe. They were the very heart of what survivor/author Erik Kulka calls "The Death Factory".
Interior, Krematorium II at Birkenau, blown up by the Nazis in Janurary 1945, just before they evacuated the camp. - posted on 05/02/2008
In 1944, when the four Birkenau Krematoria could no longer keep pace with the rate of destruction, some 20,000 bodies a day were burned in this, and other pits. They were approximately 100 m. long.
Once Commandant Rudolf Hoess's office. At the time this photograph was taken, this room was occupied by Auschwitz Museum director Kazimerz Smolen, for five years a prisoner in the camp. The view is of the gas chamber and Krematorium I.
After an execution at the Black Wall, Block 11 prisoners' bodies were hauled to Krematorium I.
Such meticulous care merely to surround the innocent.
Auschwitz I.
Auschwitz Museum Archives. - posted on 05/02/2008
Quarantine Block: Birkenau, second section, camp A
A survivor looked at this photo and gasped in surprise: "Grass ? There was never any... there. We would have eaten it".
Taken inside a huge glass case in the Auschwitz Museum. This represents one day's collection at the peak of the gassings, about twenty five thousand pairs.
Jews were told to bring their essential belongings on the transport to "Relocation". Immediately on unloading, these were taken away and sorted in large warehouses in a section of Birkenau nicknamed "Canada" because it was a place of abundance. After unloading their human victims, trains would be loaded with the possessions of earlier victims and sent back to Germany. These objects are often all that is left of their owners. They passed each other in opposite directions.
As late as 1980, many such objects were to be found in Berlin curio and antique shops, being the only passengers with a round trip ticket. The objects shown here were left behind when the Nazis burned Canada to the ground, lest its contents fall into the hands of the advancing Soviets. - Re: Auschwitz-Birkenau ---in memory of Holocaustposted on 05/02/2008
震撼。七月这是你照的吗? - Re: Auschwitz-Birkenau ---in memory of Holocaustposted on 05/02/2008
不是,朋友照的。
moab wrote:
震撼。七月这是你照的吗? - Re: Auschwitz-Birkenau ---in memory of Holocaustposted on 05/02/2008
这些照片一点都不残忍,比我们当年的工厂条件好多了。建筑挺结实的,我们的工厂哪里比得上? 小时候的成长环境真的还不如这儿呢,同样的电线网围住的。 - Re: Auschwitz-Birkenau ---in memory of Holocaustposted on 05/02/2008
犹太人同红卫兵都是专制制度的牺牲品。相比而言,红卫兵要稍微“好”些。起码犹太人是被迫的,红卫兵是自愿的。不过被屠杀的犹太人有后人纪念,红卫兵们呢?
- Re: Auschwitz-Birkenau ---in memory of Holocaustposted on 05/02/2008
我一般回避类似地方,不想再加重心脏负担。上周末在D.C. 心想无处可去了,去Holocaust Memorial 受一回教育吧,结果不想各路中小学生被一道领来参观,跟本进不去,领了张票,却是好几个小时以后的,只好匆匆浏览一番临时展 The Nazi Olympics, 1936 作罢。 - Re: Auschwitz-Birkenau ---in memory of Holocaustposted on 05/02/2008
谢谢七月。 - Re: Auschwitz-Birkenau ---in memory of Holocaustposted on 05/02/2008
我去年读了《像自由一样美丽》还想今年要去特莱津看看呢,不过,鉴于欧洲国家今年的表现,旅行计划取消,过两年再去吧。
另外,回丁老师,你上次提及的藏区闹事被逮捕的人,请留意国内新闻,目前正在公开审判三十个被抓捕的闹事份子。我不懂法律,就不关心了,既然能够公开审判,相信也能做到依法办事了。 - Re: Auschwitz-Birkenau ---in memory of Holocaustposted on 05/02/2008
电影《The Counterfeiters》里经常会响起墙的另一边跑步的声音,只有声音,人不出现,那就是给prisoners穿上小一号的鞋,负重,直到跑死。。。
这样的地方我也是没有勇气去,上次都到了Krakow,想了很久还是没敢去。
那个Kazimerz Smolen馆长真是了不起。 - Re: Auschwitz-Birkenau ---in memory of Holocaustposted on 05/04/2008
不久前读了 Primo Levi 的书 Survival In Auschwitz,其中写的最小的事件,都让我难受好久,晚上睡不着觉,半夜里还做了各种集中营的噩梦。在 YouTube 上找了不少 Auschwitz 的照片看,边看边掉眼泪。还有一本是 Elie wiesel 的 Night,讲的是后来的 death march,想想都心慌恐惧手脚发凉,我不敢读。
Schindler's List 上映的时候,一个美国朋友说他不会买票去看一个如此 depressing 的电影,让自己伤心。当时我不懂。现在懂了。七月这些照片我不敢看。 - posted on 05/04/2008
阿姗 wrote:
不久前读了 Primo Levi 的书 Survival In Auschwitz,其中写的最小的事件,都让我难受好久,晚上睡不着觉,半夜里还做了各种集中营的噩梦。在 YouTube 上找了不少 Auschwitz 的照片看,边看边掉眼泪。还有一本是 Elie wiesel 的 Night,讲的是后来的 death march,想想都心慌恐惧手脚发凉,我不敢读。
Schindler's List 上映的时候,一个美国朋友说他不会买票去看一个如此 depressing 的电影,让自己伤心。当时我不懂。现在懂了。七月这些照片我不敢看。
谢阿姗提到Primo Levi 和Elie Wiesel。愚认为若想对集中营和幸存者有所理解的话,首推 Primo Levi 的If it is a Man, 他是战后第一个打破沉默,将苦难展示于人, 使生者不得不想“究竟发生了什么事" 的人。但他并不只是描述,而是充满尊严的思考。幸存使他有负罪感,所以他写到说,优秀的人都去了,活下的多为懦夫。自责和负罪使他最后终于自杀。欧洲好几个城市都有以Primo Levi 命名的街道。
Elie wiesel 是个很有意思的人。他说战后很多年内,他一见穿制服的人,就不由哆嗦,出汗,本能放慢脚步,想躲。他战后在巴黎谋生,可法国政府死板的国籍法一直使他无法入籍,于是奔往自由之国的美国。后来法国人追着给他国籍被他谢绝,他想要荣誉军团勋章,自然如愿。
- Re: Auschwitz-Birkenau ---in memory of Holocaustposted on 05/04/2008
阿姗、鹿希跟浮生的童年一定非常安详甜蜜,没有见识过中国的劳改农场与工厂的残忍。我要是把我们小时候的工厂图片放上来,也一定让你们做噩梦的。 - Re: Auschwitz-Birkenau ---in memory of Holocaustposted on 05/04/2008
I recommend Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. He was a Holocaust survivor and he hardly ever stopped observing and reflecting upon human behavior in extreme situations as a professional psycho-analyst as he himself went through all these.
But to be frank. Everytime people mentions Holocaust I can't help but thinking of the sufferings of Palestinians. - posted on 05/04/2008
touche wrote:
I recommend Viktor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning. He was a Holocaust survivor and he hardly ever stopped observing and reflecting upon human behavior in extreme situations as a professional psycho-analyst as he himself went through all these.
But to be frank. Everytime people mentions Holocaust I can't help but thinking of the sufferings of Palestinians.
You may then agree with Richard Falk who, an American Jew, has made once the comparison of Israeli practices in the OPT similar or close to the Holocaust. He seems more nuanced now however. - Re: Auschwitz-Birkenau ---in memory of Holocaustposted on 05/05/2008
他说战后很多年内,他一见穿制服的人,就不由哆嗦,出汗,本能放慢脚步,想躲。
文革中,有一段时间,我有过类似的反应。
这个反应有后遗症,一直延续到现在没有完全消失。 - Re: Auschwitz-Birkenau ---in memory of Holocaustposted on 05/05/2008
现在在国内见到警察和城管就有一种不好的感觉。 - posted on 05/05/2008
其实中国传统的折磨人的方法是很高明的,尤其是明朝的特务。殊连
九族,可不是轻易的,方孝孺一人迁涉上万(十族?)。。。
玛雅 wrote:
阿姗、鹿希跟浮生的童年一定非常安详甜蜜,没有见识过中国的劳改农场与工厂的残忍。我要是把我们小时候的工厂图片放上来,也一定让你们做噩梦的。
土改时又怎么样呢?尤其是大饥饿,那也不止是政策上的人祸,简直
是一声令下的人口灭绝嘛。文革相比,要好得多啦。
前面与浮生讨论伊斯兰的德国与德国的伊斯兰,列维-斯特劳斯说的
。更引伸一步,应该说,犹太教的德国与德国的犹太教,这个从语言
,务虚的习俗上,情绪极端上都能感悟一些。
说希特勒的爷爷是犹太人,更有人说瓦格纳的生理父亲是犹太人,我
想,尼采整天攀波兰贵族血统,说不定也是犹太的血。。。
提出些反差来。这些里面都有值得深思的地方。
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