Restoring their Dignity

A prisoner in the Nazi concentration camp of Nordhausen shows the pitiful physical condition of one of his fellow inmates.

Prisoners in that state were commonly referred to as “Muselmann”.

Many died in the days following liberation.

Eighty-one years ago, on January 27, 1945, the Soviet army liberated the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz.

More than 1,100,000 people died in the nearly five years that the camp was operational. Nearly 216,000 of them were children.

Never again.

Wanda Ferko-Pawłowska

Born in Zabrzeg (Poland) on March 12, 1926. Roma, at the age of 16 she was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp and later transferred to the women’s camp of Ravensbrück.

Liberated.

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, colorized photograph.

The camp was liberated on April 15, 1945. Although it was not an extermination camp and had no gas chambers, more than 50,000 prisoners died there due to the living conditions.

✡️Jeannette Groenteman

Born in Amsterdam on September 2, 1938. From a Jewish family, in 1942 she was deported together with her mother and siblings to the extermination camp of Auschwitz, where they were murdered.

In the photo, Jeannette with Lena and John