#oświęcim

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Język: Polski (Polish)

Note that Oświęcim is more well known by its German name, Auschwitz.

Credit to @xasymptotax for the translation. Dziękuję!

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Zamek w Oświęcimiu (1932).

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The gallows where Rudolf Höss, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp was hanged, Oświęcim, Poland

Polish vintage postcard

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Can somebody tell me how they classified jews in German death camp in Auschwitz? I mean there were 3.3 million jews in Poland before occupation. I'm pretty sure they speaked polish and many of them lived there their whole life. They were classified as jews right? Not as Polish people? It's confusing for me because they talk about Polish/German/Hungarian/French etc jews but when it comes to victims of Auschwitz there's no such classification, just jews. It's bothering me how Polish people are treated especially now when Ben Shapiro just skipped them in his speach, the second biggest group of victims in German death camp.

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The Escape Artist by Jonathan Freedland #BookReview #Inspiration

Check out my book review of "The Escape Artist" by Jonathan Freedland #BookReview #Inspiration

“The Escape Artist” by Jonathan Freedland “The Escape Artist” written by Jonathan Freedland is the heroic story of Rudolf “Rudy” Vrba and Fred Wetzler’s harrowing escape from the Nazi Concentration Camp at Auschwitz during the Holocaust. After experiencing the horrors of Auschwitz on various crews in the camp he soon understood that these Nazi concentration camps were not re-settlement camps as…

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On The Rampage, I Love Jews, International Holocaust Day, Poland, Auschwitz, Oświęcim, Friday Night Lights w/ The Killers Live from Germany!

[gregdotorg]

Gerhard Richter BIRKENAU opened last month in the Polish village of Oświęcim. The permanent exhibition pavilion includes full-scale facsimile editions of Richter's 2014 Birkenau series of abstract paintings; reproductions of the photos of the Birkenau extermination camp taken by Jewish Sonderkommandos in 1944, which served as Richter's basis for his paintings; and facsimile editions of a 1991 series of Grey Mirror paintings. Which in press coverage so far just get dismissed as grey mirrors, though they are actually photo reproductions of glass mirror paintings, in face-mounted acrylic on aluminum.

By compelling visitors to see themselves in a mirror while surrounded by evidence and repetitions of a genocide, I think these are the most significant works in this show.

[s/o @csantdotinfo for the heads up on the Guardian's review]

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02.04.2024 | Credits: x

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Czyszczenie kanalizacji Oświęcim

Jeśli szukasz usług czyszczenia kanalizacji w Sosnowcu, istnieje kilka firm, które mogą pomóc w tym zakresie. Takie firmy zazwyczaj oferują:

Czyszczenie i udrażnianie rur: Usługi obejmujące usuwanie zatorów i osadów w rurach kanalizacyjnych.

Inspekcje kamerą: Diagnozowanie problemów w kanalizacji przy użyciu kamer, co pozwala na precyzyjne zlokalizowanie awarii.

Pogotowie kanalizacyjne: Szybka pomoc w nagłych przypadkach, np. przy zatorach lub zalaniach.

Opróżnianie szamb: Opróżnianie i czyszczenie zbiorników na ścieki.

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Tadeusz Makowski, Basket with apples

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the day i stop mistaking oświęcim and wieliczka will be the day i finally be at peace

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by Matti Friedman

The failure of Holocaust education has been most sharply observed by the writer Dara Horn, particularly in a prescient essay for The Atlantic last spring and before that in a 2021 book, People Love Dead Jews. After visiting numerous museums and speaking to educators who teach Holocaust curricula, she concludes in the essay, “The bedrock assumption that has endured for nearly half a century is that learning about the Holocaust inoculates people against antisemitism. But it doesn’t.” 

By turning the Holocaust into a generic story about prejudice, Horn argues, Holocaust education left its recipients without any understanding of the specific problem facing Jews—or even much sympathy for real Jews in the present. 

This was the argument she made half a year before the Hamas attack of October 7 and its aftershocks, when any doubts about the accuracy of Horn’s hypothesis were put to rest. The well-meaning donors who’ve footed the astronomical bill for museums, memorials, classes, and films should ask for their money back.

The confusion between knowledge of the how and of the why is illustrated, inadvertently, in the figure of one of the experts interviewed in Evil on Trial, Omer Bartov, a Holocaust historian at Brown who describes himself as a “historian of genocide.” Bartov, who is Israeli, belongs to Israel’s most unfortunate export category—namely, academics who find a home for themselves on an increasingly unhinged Western left by reassuring their comrades that their dark fantasies about Israel are sane. Barely a month after October 7, Bartov wrote a New York Times op-ed accusing Israel of “crimes against humanity” and warning of a possible “genocide” in Gaza, taking the two key terms first invented to describe the Nazis and deploying them against Jews. Then, after visiting one of the college encampments where Zionists are cast as malevolent global villains, he reassured an interviewer from Democracy Now! that he’d seen nothing amiss and that antisemitism on American campuses “does not exist in any significant form.” The protesters may be trafficking in lurid stories of Jewish evil, but the Holocaust professor thinks that this time the stories are true.Prisoner shoes on display at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Oświęcim, Poland. (via Alamy)

One of the blithe assumptions of Holocaust narrative has always been that no one would identify with the Nazis, but this is wrong. They’re villains, to be sure, but also strong figures, men of action. Just as the best character in Schindler’s List is the Nazi commandant played by Ralph Fiennes, the best character in Evil on Trial is Adolf Hitler, acted with deranged energy in the reenactment scenes by Károly Kozma. When I finished the series on Netflix, I saw that I could continue to Hitler’s Circle of Evil, then to Hitler: A Career, and then to five other movies with title screens featuring Nazis. All of this manages not only to bestow upon the Nazis a kind of dark glamor but also to reassure everyone that if you don’t have a red band on your arm and a skull on your hat, you’re fine. 

The Jews, on the other hand, tend to be mostly absent as real characters. They occasionally appear to be marched away with their hands up or shot into ditches in their underwear. But we don’t get a sense of who they are, or why their difference—and particularly their stubborn refusal to adopt whatever ideology is current—has repeatedly turned them into figures of hate. 

The liberal West may believe itself to be post-Christian, but it’s still the world created by an ideological system that co-opted Judaism and then developed a furious resentment toward its continued existence, thus establishing a civilizational pattern that seems destined to repeat forever.

If Holocaust stories treat Jews as props, they miss understanding what the Jews think about what’s happening to them. And what they think is worth consideration, not just out of courtesy.

Judaism is a religion with a very long memory, and Jewish texts include stories of oppression and extermination stretching back to Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus. Europe’s Jews saw the threat as a continuum that didn’t start or end with Hitler. They knew he was a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself. It is this insight, unlike the details of SS hierarchy or the sadism of Dr. Mengele, that has the power to help us make sense of the world we see right now. 

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sculptures* round 1 poll 8

Przejście 2001 (The passage 2001):

propaganda: Szajna zaprojektował tą rzeźbę dla kopca pamięci w Oświęcimiu, gdzie był więźniem, jako symbol uzdrowienia i przejścia w nowe czasy. Budowa jej w Oświęcimiu zajęła bardzo długo, także pierwsza odsłona Przejścia stanęła w Rzeszowie, skąd Szajna pochodzi. [Szajna designed this sculpture for the memorial mound in Oświęcim (Auschwitz) where he was imprisoned during the war, as a symbol of healing and transition into a new era. The construction work in Oświęcim took a very long time, so the first time the sculpture was unveiled was in Rzeszów, Szajna's hometown)

Drabina do nieba (A ladder to heaven):

propaganda: Drabina do nieba była częstym motywem w pracach Szajny (głównie sztukach teatralnych), które z kolei często były naznaczone jego doświadczeniami w obozach w Oświęcimiu i Buchenwaldzie. Ta drabina ma siedem metrów i była zamontowana w Orońsku, ale teraz można podobne instalacje na podstawie projektów Szajny zobaczyć także np. w Warszawie czy Rzeszowie. [Ladder to heaven is a common motif in Szajna's works, especially his theatre pieces, which are in turn often heavily influenced by his experiences of being imprisoned in Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. This ladder is 7 meters tall and was installed in Orońsko, but nowadays you can see similar installations also in Warsaw or Rzeszów]

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Amin al-Husseini docu: part 7

Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Last

Translator's notes:

-> Auschwitz as a camp was huge, bigger than most cities. It was built in parts. The initial, concentration camp was built close to (and was named after) the Polish town of Oświęcim, called in German Auschwitz. It was later expanded, too. The extermination camp, centered around the gas chambers, was built in 1942, and by that point, the entire camp's area was so big, that this part was closer to (and named after) the Polish town of Brzezinka, called in German Birkenau. The concentration camp part was nicknamed Auschwitz I, the extermination camp part was Auschwitz II, Auschwitz-Birkenau, or just Birkenau. There was also an area known as Auschwitz III, where the factories using (mostly Jewish) slaves were.

-> The Sonderkommando were Jews who had been forced by the Nazis to operate the gas chambers. They were often selected based on being less able to communicate the horrors they'd seen to other Jewish slaves in the camp, for example many of the Sonderkommando were Greek Jews (while most European Jews were Ashkenazim, who shared the common Jewish language of Yiddish, the majority of Greek Jews were Sephardim, and spoke the Jewish language of Ladino. Thus, communication between the two groups was harder). Even when the Sonderkommando were physically capable of going on with their work, the Nazis would routinely exterminate them, to wipe out the witnesses of this industrialized genocide. My wonderful colleague, who you see interviewed in this docu, Professor Gideon Greif, in addition to writing one of the most comprehensive books about Auschwitz, also recorded the testimonies of the last surviving Sonderkommando, and published them in an emotionally difficult to read, but really important book, titled We Wept Without Tears. The photograph of Shaul Chazan, one of the last sonderkommando, is from a 1993 trip to Auschwitz, where Prof. Greif recorded a few of the testimonies, as they were being given in the place they were about. This docu has now been translated into English. The book was also the basis for the Oscar-winning film, Son of Saul.

-> The Capo was a camp slave, who was appointed by the Nazis to "supervise" a group of other camp slaves. In Nazi camps where regular criminals were incarcerated together with non-criminal groups, such as Jews, the Capos were often the former, because a part of the idea behind using the Capos was to implement a "divide and rule" system, meaning the less empathy the Capo had for those under his "supervision," the better. Some Capos did what the Nazis told them to out of fear, some enjoyed their new status and were abusive to their fellow camp slaves, and some Capos tried to use the position in order to help, even save, other slaves. I'm detailing this, because there's a misconception that all Capos were traitors.

-> Dieter Wisliceny was directly responsible for the murder of over 106,000 Jews from Slovakia and Greece alone (and he helped Eichmann with the extermination of over 500,000 Hungarian Jews, too). He was arrested by the Americans and NOT put on trial at Nuremberg. Wisliceny was eventually brought to justice by Czechoslovakia, which demanded his extradition.

-> I hope it's okay to add something personal, because the docu briefly shows a translation of a letter written by the Mufti to the Romanian Foreign Minister. My great uncle is Jewish Romanian author and Holocaust survivor, Norman Manea. He wrote about a part of what my family's been through because of the collaboration between the Nazis and the Romanians, as the Jews from eastern Romania were exiled to Transnistria by the hundreds of thousands to die there, in his memoir (which was translated into English), The Hooligan's Return. I have pictures of starved Jewish kids in Transnistria, their bodies look like skeletons everywhere, except their swollen bellies (a now known symptom of starvation). I don't bring these pictures to the museum, unless I have reason to believe I may have Holocaust deniers in the group, the pics are that terrible to me. Among the rescue attempts of Jews, the Mufti stopped a plan to save 80,000 Jews from Romania, and 5,000 Romanian Jewish kids exiled to Transnistria. I can't explain how I feel about that. He never paid for his crimes, they're not even recognized, but then the anti-Israel crowd screams that this is all about "the occupation," even though the State of Israel didn't even exist during WWII, when the Mufti sentenced to death a part of my people, a part of my community, and maybe even a part of my family.

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