Thursday, January 27, 2011

This picture is from: davenewbold.com

This picture is from Auschwitz concentration camp as new prisoners are arriving. This makes me think of the Wiesel family arriving to this very same place and how the people were being sent to the left and the right. Left for death, but unknown to the prisoners, and right for labor and more then likely, death later. People were either to die or work depending on their age, gender, and their strength. Old women and children were almost always sent straight to the gas chambers upon arrival to the camps.



This picture is from: elmhurst.edu





This is a picture of children in the Holocaust. There were millions of kids that were sent to the camps with their families and they really weren't treated much different than the adults were. They were all tortured and malnourished and much more on top of that. When I look at pictures of children in the Holocaust, it makes me think back to the book, "Night" when Elie Wiesel arrives at the camp with his father. He is asked what is age is and he lies and tells the SS guard that he is 18. He does to spare his life as long as he can becasue in a lot of cases, as children arrived, they were sent straight to death or to Dr. Mengele.
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This is a picture of the ovens that were in the crematoriums of the concentration camps during the Holocaust. Jewish people were sent to these camps and in a lot of cases, as soon as they got there, they sent straight to a gas chamber or one of these ovens. To me, this is a very memorable picture. Anytime I think of this picture, I feel sadness and think about the horrible torture these people went through really for no reason at all.