On May 8th, Prime Minister of Belgium, Elio Di Rupo, visited the Auschwitz Memorial Site and Museum. During his visit, he met with a thousand members group of European youth. 720 Belgians and 280 representatives of other European countries set off May 5th on a special train from the Schaerbeek station, which, during the Second [...]
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Prime Minister of Belgium along with European youth visit the Auschwitz Memorial Site
Posted by admin on May 16th, 2012
Henryk Mandelbaum (1922-2008)
Posted by admin on April 6th, 2012
Former Auschwitz prisoner Henryk Mandelbaum, the last member of the camp Sonderkommando living in Poland, died on June 17 at the age of 85. The Sonderkommando was a group of prisoners forced by the Germans to work in the crematoria and gas chambers. Mandelbaum was one of those former prisoners who were always willing to [...]
The Place Where You Are Standing… – a Moving document of extermination watched anew
Posted by admin on February 27th, 2012
“Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Place Where You Are Standing…” is the latest publication of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. The album presents 31 historical photographs taken by SS men in 1944 depicting the extermination of Jews in the Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp. They were set in contrast with present-day photographs of the same locations. The original 1944 album is [...]
Paulo Melis, history teacher, Tilburg, Holland.
Posted by admin on February 15th, 2012
Even over 65 years later, a visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, takes you deeper into the abyss humankind ever could create, than any other place on this earth you can imagine. Hunger-fear-transport-selection-fire-chimney: these words all have intrinsic meaning, but in those times, they meant something else, as Elie Wiesel once wrote. Not any studying [...]
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