Some terrible images to remember a chilling piece of our history, the Holocaust, which is important not to forget
The whole world celebrates today, January 27, the Day of Remembrance dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust, the 6 million Jews exterminated by Nazi madness in the years of the Second World War. Here are some photos so we don’t forget the abyss of horror into which the man fell.
Three Orthodox Jews visit the former Auschwitz concentration camp, January 27, 2005
Orthodox Jewish children study in the Warsaw Ghetto Synagogue, 1938
A historical photo: the Jews of the Warsaw Ghetto surrender to German soldiers in 1943
An image of a concentration camp barrack in Mimmo Calopresti’s documentary film, “I just wanted to live”
The eviction of the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943
Prisoners in the Ebensee concentration camp, Austria, 7 May 1945. The camp was allegedly used for “scientific” experiments
Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto during a Nazi “control”, 1939
An inmate bursts into tears in front of American liberation troops in the Wöbbelin concentration camp, Germany, May 4, 1945
Jews in wheelchairs in the walled Warsaw Ghetto, 1940. Nearly all of the ghetto’s population was deported by the Nazis
The Dachau extermination camp, 30 April 1945
Jewish boys in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1938
A man carries away the bodies of starving Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, 1943
Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto, October 1940
A photo taken at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp showing German officers, smiling, cutting locks of hair from a Jewish prisoner
Nazi SS in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943
The Warsaw ghetto and the extermination camps of Auschwitz, Dachau and Bergen-Belsen. Terrified Jews and laughing Nazi torturers. Bodies reduced to skeletons and remains of men, women and children who died of hunger and hardship. 15 shocking images that testify to the horror of the Holocaust. Lest we forget
