Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau II
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May 16
I give five stars to the memorial itself (I'll clarify just in case).
We came here in 2018. I was in a situation with wild toxicosis, but I felt that I definitely had to see this place with my own eyes. I didn't regret it, despite the smell in the territory, and it is quite strong. Few buildings have been preserved, basically everything has been restored, they did not reach the crematorium, I decided that it was not good to empty my stomach in the museum. We didn't go to the third camp, we didn't meet the deadline. Set aside at least one day to visit the entire Auschwitz. Arrive by 6-6.30 a.m., because the queues are huge.
The town itself is surprisingly cute and beautiful.
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February 15, 2024
Many years ago I was at the Auschwitz Museum.
This photo is located at the very beginning.
It depicts 3,500 Hungarian Jews. They arrived at the Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau (KZ Auschwitz). Upon arrival of the train, the first thing people are divided into two columns, which are clearly visible in the photo.
Men separately, women separately with children.
A little later, the women's column will be divided into two more...
women separately, children separately.
In order for them not to resist, they are very amiably told about the need for sanitation from lice and offered to wash with hot water after the road.
Then they will all be brought to two huge rooms, in which these people will undress a little later, and then they will be asked to leave their belongings, for which they will be able to return in 15 minutes.
Then they are led into the next room, and the door closes behind them.
For those who are in the photo – forever.
Women were always allowed in first, then the cyclone gas was turned on for 15 minutes (which was produced by Bayer), and that was it.
Then the children, and only then the men.
Well, then they ventilate the room, then a special team comes, which takes the bodies to the next room along the way, where there are stoves.
And they burn them all there.
After a few hours, there is silence.
Very organized, efficient. Very German
SS men go to have fun – drink their schnapps and dance
I do not know about you, but it is creepy for me to look at the merry staff who killed several million innocent people, most of them children, very young children, teenagers (girls and boys), women and the elderly. There were also men..
The photo is dated May 29, 1943 and has been on the Internet for a long time, but few people know the names of these / // captured in the picture.
At that time (May 1943), about a million people were brutally tortured in Auschwitz – four hundred thousand of them were children from one to 16 years old (oh, my God – this is the same number of people who now live in Simferopol!)
In the photo, Jewish women and children on the territory of the Auschwitz concentration camp
Presumably the photo was taken between crematoriums No. 3 and No. 4
They are all waiting in line to be sent to the gas chambers
There were days when the load of the gas chambers was especially high, the wait was up to ten hours
The Nazis did not leave children alive until the age of 14, in their opinion, children could not work well and ate a lot, which undermined the economy of great Germany and the Third Reich ...
An excerpt from the novel Swans Fly
Inhuman, barbaric experiments on humans, such as experiments on twin children in concentration camps, were started in order to discover similarities and differences in the genetics of twins.
The main figure in these experiments was Josef Mengele, who performed experiments on more than 1,500 pairs of twins, of which only about 200 remained alive.
Mengele conducted his experiments on twins in the Auschwitz concentration camp. The twins were classified according to their age and gender and housed in special barracks. The experiments involved injecting various chemicals into the twins' eyes to see if it was possible to change the color of their eyes. Attempts have also been made to "stitch" twins to artificially create Siamese twins. Experiments with attempts to change the color of the eyes often ended in severe pain, infection of the eyes and temporary or permanent blindness. Mengele also used the method of infecting one of the twins with infections, followed by autopsy of both subjects, in order to study and compare the affected organs.
Emaciated children are prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp, on whom German doctors conducted experiments. The twins were kept in the so-called "gypsy camp", whose doctor in 1943-1944 was Josef Mengele.
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March 17, 2024
I was there in 2020. It's impressive... It's very hard, I probably won't come back. The horrific scale of human destruction. These mountains of shoes, shaving brushes, glasses and women's hair. It's terrible really. But I think this place should definitely be visited, it's a terrible and cruel story, but it took place. We must remember and make every effort so that this would not happen again. I do not raise my hand to put 5 stars, but as a museum this place deserves high praise. In 2020, there were Russian-language excursions
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