May 27, 1942 | Reinhard Heydrich, high-ranking German SS and primary architect of the Holocaust, is critically wounded in Prague as a result of Operation Anthropoid planned by Winston Churchill's government & Czechoslovak government-in-exile. He will die a week later.

May, 1944 | Hungarian Jews who had just undergone selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau and were classified as “not fit for work” in a grove before being gassed. Picture from Yad Vashem archives.

May 30, 1943 | Josef Mengele, takes the position of a camp doctor in the so-called Gypsy family camp in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau. During selections, he sends thousands to their death. He will conduct criminal experiments on twins & dwarfs, killing many of them. (1/2)

(2/2) After the war Mengele avoided arrest by escaping to South America. In 1962, he filed an appeal before court in #Frankfurt against the University of Frankfurt for revoking his medical diploma. He lost the case but continued to avoid prosecution for his crimes in #Auschwitz.

It is difficult to explain how the systematic killing of thousands of people had a place in the heart of 20th-century Europe. Was it known what went on behind the barbed wire of Germany's largest and most lethal concentration camp? #SeeingAuschwitz

During the month of May 1942, 2,950 prisoners, including 120 reeducation prisoners, were killed in #Auschwitz-Birkenau. In the picture, a pile of glasses and spectacles belonging to victims murdered in Auschwitz.

June 4, 1942 | 12 Polish prisoners, after 8 days at the Penal Company in #Auschwitz, are put in Block 11 and shot at the execution wall. Włodzimierz Makaliński (Nº. 12710), member of the Polish underground resistance organization (ZOW) led by Witold Pilecki, is among them.

Once the machine of hate ideology is unleashed, it creates havoc at a faster rate than any possible reaction of protective mechanisms. It is therefore, a question to all of us. It is OUR duty to reject and prevent all inequality and discrimination.

June 6, 1944 | D-Day: Allied landings in #Normandy on the coast of northern #France. 160,000 troops cross the English Channel and more than 2 M allied troops will be in France by the end of August in an operation to release German-occupied Western #Europe.

During the Holocaust, the creation of ghettos was a key step in the Nazi process of brutally separating, persecuting, and ultimately destroying Europe's Jews. In the picture, view of a barbed-wire fence separating part of the ghetto in Krakow from the rest of the city.

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Blanka (right), Niusia (center) and Lola (left) took this picture in the Lodz ghetto — they were school friends. "It's my only memento of the ghetto" stated Blanka. Out of the three, Niusia did not survive the Holocaust. She was killed in #Auschwitz.

Learning, educating and studying our past to inspire new generations for the future is our mission. Thank you for helping us to fulfill it. #SeeingAuschwitz

The Jewish child Tamas Akiva Salzer was born in Miskolc, Hungary in 1939, to Josef and Mindl. In 1944 he was murdered in #Auschwitz. Picture Yad Vashem

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Monsters do not exist. The SS were simple humans that decided to follow an ideology based on hatred and antisemitism. This picture was taken in Solahütte, a resort in Poland for the Nazi German personnel of Auschwitz during the Holocaust in occupied Poland. #SeeingAuschwitz

Hinda Eikhenbaum nee Halper was a Jewish woman born in Lublin, Poland in 1918 to Mendel and Gitel. She was married. Prior to WWII and during the war she lived in Lublin, Poland. Hinda was murdered in #Auschwitz. Picture Yad Vashem

We all have a mental image of what #Auschwitz was, but is it really objective, and is it free of prejudices acquired from literature, cinema or even the images of the camp itself? #SeeingAuschwitz exhibition invites us to reflect on it with the photographic legacy of the camp.

Elisabeth was a Jewish woman born in Transylvania, Romania, where she married & had a daughter Eva. During the war, their family lived in the Regin ghetto. In 1944, Elisabeth and Eva were deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chambers. Elisabeth was 30 years old. Eva, 8.

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