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Image Episodes from Auschwitz. Love in the Shadow of Death
This illustrated historical book tells the story of Mala and Edek, who felt in love in the Auschwitz camp, about their unsuccessful escape, and their tragic death. LANGUAGES: EN, DE, FR, IT, NOR, SWE, PL.




Image Voices of Memory 7. Roma in Auschwitz
This issue is dedicated to the “forgotten Holocaust,” as the slaughter of the European Sinti and Roma by the Nazis is often referred to.
The Gypsy "family camp" ("Zigeunerlager") was established in February 1943 in Birkenau. A total of 21 thousand Gypsy prisoners were registered there. The "Gypsy camp" was characterized by hunger, overcrowded barracks and poor hygienic and sanitary conditions. By the beginning of August 1944, there were only about three thousand people. On August 2, they were taken to the gas chambers of Crematorium V and murdered. The "Gypsy camp" was liquidated in this way.
LANGUAGE: EN, PL.

  
  
 

 


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