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During the Holocaust, children were especially vulnerable to death under the Nazi regime. An estimated 1.5 million children, [1] nearly all Jewish, were murdered during the Holocaust, either directly by or as a direct consequence of Nazi actions.
They survived the Holocaust and signed affidavits that Siemiątek was the boy in the photo in the 1970s. [10] [14] In 1999, a 95-year-old man named Avrahim Zelinwarger told the Ghetto Fighters House in Israel that the boy in the photo was his son, Levi Zeilinwarger, born in 1932. Avrahim escaped to the Soviet Union in 1940, but his wife Chana ...
Much of the photography of the Holocaust is the work of Nazi German photographers. [7] Some originated as routine administrative procedure, such as identification photographs (); others were intended to illustrate the construction and functioning of the camps or prisoner transport. [5]
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The images were taken within 15–30 minutes of each other by an inmate inside Auschwitz-Birkenau, the extermination camp within the Auschwitz complex. Usually named only as Alex, a Jewish prisoner from Greece, the photographer was a member of the Sonderkommando , inmates forced to work in and around the gas chambers.
During the Holocaust, more than a million Jews were murdered in Ukraine. Most of them were shot in mass executions by Einsatzgruppen ( death squads ) and Ukrainian collaborators . [ 2 ] In 1897, the Russian Empire Census found that there were 442 Jews (out of a population of 3,032) living in Ivanhorod , a village today in the Cherkasy Oblast ...
The monument was founded by Jacek Eisner.Its form refers to the high wall of the ghetto with barbed wire, to which plates, arranged in the shape of a menorah, lead.Ruins of the ghetto were placed at the bottom of the monument, on the surface of which are photographs of Jewish children who died during World War II.
Marion's Triumph is a 2003 documentary film that tells the story of Marion Blumenthal Lazan, a child Holocaust survivor, who recounts her painful childhood memories in order to preserve history. The film combines rare historic footage, animated flashbacks, and family photographs to illustrate the horrors she experienced.