English: The main gate at the former Nazi death camp of Birkenau. Note that this is inside the camp looking back from the loading ramp to the “Gate of Death”.(Photo credit: Wikipedia)
AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP —- Liberation Day 70th Anniversary
Some 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were killed there between 1940 and 1945, when the Soviets liberated the camp.
It is expected to be the last major anniversary event survivors are able to attend in considerable numbers.
The entrance to Camp I at Auschwitz, with the sign on the gate reading Arbeit macht frei (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
May we as human beings never allow for this terror to take place again.
Please click on the following links to learn more about the terrible atrocities and mass-murders of men, women, and children. Let us not forget history’s great lessons.
We are all brothers and sisters here on this earth.
A very graphic pictorial and history site that I encourage all visitors to stop to see:
http://isurvived.org/AUSCHWITZ_TheCamp.html
Peace Be With You All,
CJ
©C.S. Thompson, 2015.
