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Project Revives Nazi Atrocities in Striking Color

46 points by montrose 8y ago

swampthinker 8y ago
Anyone know where you can find the other photos?
- m_ke 8y ago
  https://facesofauschwitz.com/gallery/ https://facesofauschwitz.com/gallery/
onyva 8y ago
Isn’t it ironic that the new wave of fascism is led by a half German (drumpf) surrounded by so-called “Jews” and applauded by Israelis (some of which are 2nd and 3rd generation survivors)... Netanyahu wrote the playbook drumpf is using to attack “foreigners”, ie. same ideas spread by Israeli right in respect to Palestinians.
- sctb 8y ago
  This isn't the site for generic political or ideological musings. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
  - ggm 8y ago
    This isn't a generic, its highly specific.
mgkimsal 8y ago
what's the silver/metal thing on peoples' heads in the left side photo?
- cimmanom 8y ago
  It looks like just a peg in the wall where people were told to stand to center their head in front of the camera.
  - erikpukinskis 8y ago
    I suspect it was used as a mark to help take measurements from the images.
- robteix 8y ago
  According to one of the posts[0] on the photographer's website: > The metal device visible in the left picture was part of a spinning chair. It held the head in the correct position during the photographing. [0] http://www.marinamaral.com/blog/2018/4/9/faces-of-auschwitz-salomon-honig http://www.marinamaral.com/blog/2018/4/9/faces-of-auschwitz-...
davidw 8y ago
> Photo of 14-year-old Auschwitz inmate Czesława Kwoka. The girl was murdered with a phenol injection into the heart in 1943 There were not "very fine people on both sides".
- eclectic 8y ago
  How dare you?
adamnemecek 8y ago
This will be very controversial but lately I've been wondering why is it that Germany's atrocities are still talked about however similar atrocities committed by the Allies are ignored. Let's take Britains rule in India, particularly the Bengal famine of 1943 that killed 2-3 million people (as it happened around the same time as concentration camps). https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/ https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/ Let's not even get into Belgium rule in Congo. Is this just a "History is Written By the Victors”? I'm not trying to vindicate Hitler, but what's up with this?
- dddddaviddddd 8y ago
  Maybe the global reach of WWII? The examples you mention involved a few nations at most.
- erikpukinskis 8y ago
  I think part of it is Jewish organizations have done a great job investing in historians and museums to do the work. Someone in another thread mentioned a lack of museums about the American holocaust. That stuck in my head. Now I’m thinking about how we fund historians and museums to teach that timeline better.
  - incadenza 8y ago
    What does the American holocaust refer to? EDIT: if it’s the initial European conquest and genocide, perhaps the lack of photographic / contemporary documentation makes a museum more difficult?
    - adamnemecek 8y ago
      Yeah, that's what it refers to. I agree that the lack of contemporary documentation might be a major factor.
- eyalm 8y ago
  The Nazis established a massive, systemic and vicious program for the complete annihilation of any "enemy" of the aryan race, and by "enemy" we are talking about innocent jews, Romani and many more (although, the complete annihilation of the jewish people was it's main target). You may know this as the "Final Solution". I'm not aware of any event in modern human history that resembles the scale, the intent, the execution level and the pure evil that makes the final solution program. This does not mean that other atrocities done by any other group of people (including the "allies") are not horrific and should not be condemned or remembered. But, the final solution should always be remembered as an extreme, unique and singular event in modern human history.
NeedMoreTea 8y ago
I thought I recognised the name on the main gallery site. Witold Pilecki[0] was an astonishingly brave Polish cavalry officer who volunteered to be incarcerated in Auschwitz[1]. They wanted to get intelligence out and if possible organise resistance in the camp. He escaped after over 2 years, and volunteered to fight during the Warsaw uprising. Edit: He survived that but was executed after the war by the Poles after a show trial and conviction for espionage. He'd been collecting evidence of Soviet atrocities in Poland. [0] https://facesofauschwitz.com/gallery/witold-pilecki/ https://facesofauschwitz.com/gallery/witold-pilecki/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki#Auschwitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki#Auschwitz

46 points by montrose 8y ago

swampthinker 8y ago

Anyone know where you can find the other photos?

m_ke 8y ago
https://facesofauschwitz.com/gallery/ https://facesofauschwitz.com/gallery/

onyva 8y ago

Isn’t it ironic that the new wave of fascism is led by a half German (drumpf) surrounded by so-called “Jews” and applauded by Israelis (some of which are 2nd and 3rd generation survivors)... Netanyahu wrote the playbook drumpf is using to attack “foreigners”, ie. same ideas spread by Israeli right in respect to Palestinians.

sctb 8y ago
This isn't the site for generic political or ideological musings. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- ggm 8y ago
  This isn't a generic, its highly specific.

mgkimsal 8y ago

what's the silver/metal thing on peoples' heads in the left side photo?

cimmanom 8y ago
It looks like just a peg in the wall where people were told to stand to center their head in front of the camera.
- erikpukinskis 8y ago
  I suspect it was used as a mark to help take measurements from the images.
robteix 8y ago
According to one of the posts[0] on the photographer's website: > The metal device visible in the left picture was part of a spinning chair. It held the head in the correct position during the photographing. [0] http://www.marinamaral.com/blog/2018/4/9/faces-of-auschwitz-salomon-honig http://www.marinamaral.com/blog/2018/4/9/faces-of-auschwitz-...

davidw 8y ago

> Photo of 14-year-old Auschwitz inmate Czesława Kwoka. The girl was murdered with a phenol injection into the heart in 1943 There were not "very fine people on both sides".

eclectic 8y ago
How dare you?

adamnemecek 8y ago

This will be very controversial but lately I've been wondering why is it that Germany's atrocities are still talked about however similar atrocities committed by the Allies are ignored. Let's take Britains rule in India, particularly the Bengal famine of 1943 that killed 2-3 million people (as it happened around the same time as concentration camps). https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/ https://yourstory.com/2014/08/bengal-famine-genocide/ Let's not even get into Belgium rule in Congo. Is this just a "History is Written By the Victors”? I'm not trying to vindicate Hitler, but what's up with this?

dddddaviddddd 8y ago
Maybe the global reach of WWII? The examples you mention involved a few nations at most.
erikpukinskis 8y ago
I think part of it is Jewish organizations have done a great job investing in historians and museums to do the work. Someone in another thread mentioned a lack of museums about the American holocaust. That stuck in my head. Now I’m thinking about how we fund historians and museums to teach that timeline better.
- incadenza 8y ago
  What does the American holocaust refer to? EDIT: if it’s the initial European conquest and genocide, perhaps the lack of photographic / contemporary documentation makes a museum more difficult?
  - adamnemecek 8y ago
    Yeah, that's what it refers to. I agree that the lack of contemporary documentation might be a major factor.
eyalm 8y ago
The Nazis established a massive, systemic and vicious program for the complete annihilation of any "enemy" of the aryan race, and by "enemy" we are talking about innocent jews, Romani and many more (although, the complete annihilation of the jewish people was it's main target). You may know this as the "Final Solution". I'm not aware of any event in modern human history that resembles the scale, the intent, the execution level and the pure evil that makes the final solution program. This does not mean that other atrocities done by any other group of people (including the "allies") are not horrific and should not be condemned or remembered. But, the final solution should always be remembered as an extreme, unique and singular event in modern human history.

NeedMoreTea 8y ago

I thought I recognised the name on the main gallery site. Witold Pilecki[0] was an astonishingly brave Polish cavalry officer who volunteered to be incarcerated in Auschwitz[1]. They wanted to get intelligence out and if possible organise resistance in the camp. He escaped after over 2 years, and volunteered to fight during the Warsaw uprising. Edit: He survived that but was executed after the war by the Poles after a show trial and conviction for espionage. He'd been collecting evidence of Soviet atrocities in Poland. [0] https://facesofauschwitz.com/gallery/witold-pilecki/ https://facesofauschwitz.com/gallery/witold-pilecki/ [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki#Auschwitz https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki#Auschwitz