Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Train tracks leading to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany's largest Concentration Camp, near Oświęcim, Poland.
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“Schindler’s List”.
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The Entrance Gate to Auschwitz Concentration Camp.
The wording above The Gate means: “Work Sets You Free”.
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It consisted of:
Auschwitz I, the main Camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim;
Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a Concentration and Extermination Camp with Gas Chambers;
Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a Labour Camp for the Chemical Conglomerate, IG Farben;
and dozens of Sub-Camps.[3]
The Camps became a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution to The Jewish Question.
After Germany sparked World War II by invading Poland in September 1939, the Schutzstaffel (SS) converted Auschwitz I, an Army Barracks, into a Prisoner-of-War Camp for Polish Political Prisoners.[4]
The first inmates, German criminals brought to the Camp in May 1940 as Functionaries, established the Camp's reputation for sadism. Prisoners were beaten, tortured, and executed, for the most trivial reasons. The first Gassings — of Soviet and Polish Prisoners — took place in Block 11 of Auschwitz I around August 1941.
Construction of Auschwitz II began the following month, and, from 1942 until Late-1944, Freight Trains delivered Jews from all over German-occupied Europe to its Gas Chambers.
Of the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, 1.1 million died. The Death Toll includes 960,000 Jews (865,000 of whom were Gassed on arrival), 74,000 ethnic Poles, 21,000 Roma, 15,000 Soviet Prisoners of War, and up to 15,000 other Europeans.[5]
Those not Gassed, died of Starvation, Exhaustion, Disease, Individual Executions, or Beatings. Others were killed during Medical Experiments.
At least 802 Prisoners tried to escape, 144 successfully, and, on 7 October 1944, two Sonderkommando Units, consisting of Prisoners who staffed the Gas Chambers, launched an unsuccessful Uprising. Only 789 staff (no more than fifteen per cent) ever stood trial;[6] several were Executed, including Camp Commandant Rudolf Höss. The Allies' failure to act on early reports of atrocities by bombing the Camp or its Railways remains controversial.
As The Soviet Red Army approached Auschwitz in January 1945, toward the end of The War, The SS sent most of the Camp's population West on a Death March to Camps inside Germany and Austria.
Soviet Troops entered The Camp on 27 January 1945, a day Commemorated since 2005 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the decades after The War, survivors, such as Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl, and Elie Wiesel, wrote Memoirs of their experiences, and The Camp became a dominant symbol of The Holocaust.
In 1947, Poland Founded The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on the site of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II, and, in 1979, Auschwitz was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
“Schindler’s List” is a 1993 American epic historical drama film, directed and produced by Steven Spielberg and written by Steven Zaillian.
It is based on the 1982 historical fiction novel “Schindler's Ark”, by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally.
The film follows Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who, together with his wife, Emilie Schindler, saved more than a thousand, mostly Polish-Jewish, refugees from The Holocaust, by employing them in his factories during World War II.
It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.
It is based on the 1982 historical fiction novel “Schindler's Ark”, by Australian novelist Thomas Keneally.
Schindler sees a girl in Red
during The Liquidation of The Kraków Ghetto.
The Red Coat is one of the few instances of colour
used in this predominantly Black and White film.
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It stars Liam Neeson as Schindler, Ralph Fiennes as SS officer Amon Göth and Ben Kingsley as Schindler's Jewish accountant Itzhak Stern.
