Tell ye your children...

Fülszöveg

Women, children and old people wait in a spinny 100 metres from one of the gas chambers in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Soon they will undress. Then they will be herded into a room where they will be gassed to death. Afterwards, their corpses will be burned in ovens in the same building or in nearby pits. The people in the picture are Jews deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau from Hungary in late May or early June 1944. The picture comes from a photo album compiled by a Germán working at the camp at the time. The many pictures show what happened to Jewish deportees on reaching the camp. The picture taken at the spinny is to be found under the caption: "Women and children of no further use". The spinny is still there today. All that remains of the women and children is their picture. This book describes what humán beings are capable of doing to other humán beings when democratic values have been destroyed and replaced by an ideology advocating intolerance, hate and violence.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Women, children and old people wait in a spinny 100 metres from one of the gas chambers in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. Soon they will undress. Then they will be herded into a room where they will be gassed to death. Afterwards, their corpses will be burned in ovens in the same building or in nearby pits. The people in the picture are Jews deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau from Hungary in late May or early June 1944. The picture comes from a photo album compiled by a Germán working at the camp at the time. The many pictures show what happened to Jewish deportees on reaching the camp. The picture taken at the spinny is to be found under the caption: "Women and children of no further use". The spinny is still there today. All that remains of the women and children is their picture. This book describes what humán beings are capable of doing to other humán beings when democratic values have been destroyed and replaced by an ideology advocating intolerance, hate and violence. The book presents facts about the Holocaust and attempts to explain how the unimaginable became reality. The book is published by The Living History Forum and can be ordered from the publishing house Natúr och Kultur, Box 27323, 102 54 Stockholm, Sweden. Tel: 08-453 86 00, Fax: 08-453 87 95. Order No. 27-32253-3 ISBN 91-974861-1-6 Engelsk version. The book will be supplied free of charge. Vissza