Album from Auschwitz: For WHAT? Why? And why does genocide repeat itself?
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Photo from the album of Lily Jacob.
We thought that this would never happen again. At least not in Europe. But the practice of mass murder is returning. And the current war criminals and executioners have not yet been punished. Moreover, they feel impunity...
Talking about peace while continuing to kill, methodically, day after day...
In May-June 1944, some SS officers took about 200 photographs as soon as another train with Jews from Subcarpathian Rus (Transcarpathian Ukraine, then part of Czechoslovakia occupied by Hungary) arrived at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
With German meticulousness, they pasted these photographs into an album and even took the trouble to sign them.
Read more in the Ukrainian edition...
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