Faces Of Auschwitz

Auschwitz concentration army camp was established past times the Germans inward occupied Poland inward 1940. In the side past times side few years it became the most deadly Nazi extermination camp. It is estimated that 1.1 meg people perished inward Auschwitz-Birkenau betwixt 1940-1945.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial as well as Museum has 38,916 registration photographs taken of Auschwitz prisoners. They are working alongside Brazilian photograph colorization specialist Marina Amaral as well as a squad of academics, journalists as well as volunteers to colorize these photographs as well as to inquiry as well as portion the stories of those photographed.

You tin post away explore these photos as well as biographies on Faces of Auschwitz. The Faces of Auschwitz interactive map shows the domicile town locations of the photos as well as stories completed as well as hence far. If you lot click on the map markers you lot tin post away thought the prisoner's colorized photograph as well as to click through to read the individual's story.


Since 1997 High German creative mortal Gunter Demnig has been creating memorials for private victims of the Holocaust. Demnig's stolpersteine (stumbling blocks) are small, cobblestone-sized memorials for private victims of Nazism.

Each stolperstein is placed inward the sidewalk exterior the victim's home. Stolpersteine Online is a Google Map of the memorials which conduct maintain been erected. The projection has created nearly 35,000 stumbling blocks as well as hence far. This is a real small-scale per centum of the full seat out of victims of the Holocaust, nonetheless if you lot zoom inward on whatsoever High German metropolis on this map you lot silent can't neglect to live on overwhelmed past times the sheer scale of the Nazis Holocaust.