奥斯维辛幸存者怀抱曾孙女

She was there for two years. How horrible, that poor lady. She must have been strong to survive that.

"Convoy Destination: Auschwitz", oh my god... Auschwitz was a hybrid between concentration camp and extermination site. But there were KZ's like Treblinka that were for extermination only, there, the Nazis only took a very few prisoners from the first transports as "Sonderkommando" workers to do the dirty work, like getting the dead bodies out of the gas chambers and to the crematorium. When the transports got lower in numbers, the prisoners there realized, that the end of the camp was coming and they'd get executed by the Nazis. So they made a revolt and tried to escape, but only around \~100 were successfull in both getting out of the camp and survive the manhunt afterwards. Like one guy got to a village nearby, the people there did hide him in the basement and the Nazi deathsquads were coming in, they searched the house but they didn't find the hatch that led down underground. In Treblinka, the amounts of victims are from historian told in the range between 700'000 to 1 million. KZ Auschwitz had around 1.1-1.2 mio. deaths, depending on the sources. It gets more complicated with the numbers, because of the death marches and transfers to other camps when the Nazis realized, that the Soviet Red Army was closing in. The real number of victims overall is probably much higher. [Here's a detailed account from Stanislaw Hantz](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve3-m26zkYY), that survived Auschwitz, but you need to use the youtube translator to get english subtitles, if you don't speak german. He says in the beginning, that he didn't want to speak german anymore, but he does it for explaining the things. He had to learn german, because in the camps, german was the standard language. Orders and commands were told in german, so the people needed to quickly learn the most important words. They called it "Lagerzspracha", "language of the camp". It is the reason, why most survivors can speak german, they had to learn it very fast.

Jesus fucking Christ Theres online databases to look this shit up

i've always found it soul-crushing and disheartening that we can identify a PERSON from concentration camps just by inserting their 'number'. how horribly they must've lived is the only thing in the world i can't imagine.

Wow .... that hits even harder 🙏

How do you survive 2 years in an extermination camp

Unfortunately, I know someone who had a grandparent who survived the Holocaust and their trauma was lifelong and they were very closed off because of it. It’s not true in every case of course but many holocaust survivors developed severe mental health issues as a result of what they experienced and mental healthcare wasn’t accessible back then.

Yep. I'm Jewish, and there have been more than a few times when I've looked around while at the synagogue and privately thought to myself that our existence is the best revenge.

This

When I was a medical student nearly twenty years ago, I had a patient who was a concentration camp survivor and she had a similar tattoo. It’s the only time I’ve ever seen one in person and I’ll never forget it.

To be fair, it’s hard for them to remember the distinction because in their minds there is no distinction.

“Anti Zionists” just can’t help themselves. They say it’s not antisemitism and comment the same propaganda under Holocaust survivor pictures. They’re all the same, and they have no shame.

Never again for any human anywhere should be the rallying point for all of humanity.

It looks like the baby is thinking “goo goo gah gah” to me, but that could be my own projection too.

Surprisingly few truly despicable comments Edit: I should have stopped scrolling before I got the other side of the bell curve.

Yup. Growing up, most of my friends' grandparents had a number like this on their wrists. It's terrible.