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Restoring their Dignity

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Restoring their Dignity

@RestoringDign

We restore and colorize old photographs of fascism victims. You can support us by giving RT. Spanish profile: @RestaurandoDign

Joined July 2024

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@RestoringDign
Nov 15, 2024
🔻Witold Pilecki is known as the only person who voluntarily entered the Auschwitz concentration camp. Inside, he organized a resistance group, managed to escape, and reported the crimes committed there to the outside world. Here's his story. Thread:
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Jul 26, 2024
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Despite this, in Auschwitz, they managed to secretly take some photographs. They also organized a revolt. With the help of some prisoners working outside, they stole dynamite and blew up one of the crematoriums.
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Jul 26, 2024
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Filip Müller was one of the few Sonderkommando members who survived. He worked in Auschwitz and Auschwitz II (Birkenau), and testified in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials. Henryk Mandelbaum also worked in the Sonderkommando.
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Jul 26, 2024
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Besides the photographs, we also have drawings made by the prisoners.
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Jul 26, 2024
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They also had to cremate the bodies of those who died due to the inhumane conditions in the camp. Since they knew more about the camps’ operations, the Nazis often replaced them by killing the previous group.
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Jul 26, 2024
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While not all camps were extermination camps (in fact, there were only 6), all had areas to dispose of bodies. Many camps also had (or added) at least one gas chamber. Dachau was one of these.
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Jul 26, 2024
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In Bergen-Belsen, although not an extermination camp and without a gas chamber, they also had to open massive mass graves to dispose of bodies. The images of the camp upon the liberators' arrival were horrific.
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Jul 26, 2024
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To give you an idea: In Auschwitz, in just 4.5 years of operation, 1,100,000 people were murdered. In Treblinka, a pure extermination camp, open for about 3 years, 800,000 prisoners were massacred. Photo: Prisoners from Ampfing
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Jul 26, 2024
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In Auschwitz, prisoners had to go down to an underground room and undress. Turning right, they entered the gas chamber. After execution, the Sonderkommando took the bodies to a lift and transported them to the floor with the ovens.
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Jul 26, 2024
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The Sonderkommando members recounted details about their work that make it even more macabre. They had to sort bodies by size to ensure they burned better.
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Jul 26, 2024
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Other non-extermination camps also had shocking numbers. In Bergen-Belsen, which had no gas chambers, 50,000 people died in just under 2 years, many from epidemics caused by living conditions.
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Jul 26, 2024
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They also mentioned that because the prisoners were so thin, their bodies had little fat and didn't burn well. So they sometimes had to add fuel to help burn them.
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Jul 26, 2024
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The testimonies of Sonderkommando prisoners were crucial in judging Nazi crimes. In Auschwitz, they managed to write notes and hide them under the barrack floorboards. 110 Sonderkommando workers survived Auschwitz.
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Sep 8, 2024
Ebensee is one of those concentration camps that, despite having some of the most harrowing Holocaust photos, is barely known among the general public. Along with Gusen and Woëbellin, it's one of the least known camps. 👉Thread & colorized photos:
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