LEST WE FORGET Holocaust

superbeets · Sep 8, 2018

[h=2]Heartbreaking photos of the holocaust are colorised to lay bare its true horror and combat a surge in those who don't believe the genocide took place[/h]

Joel Bellviure, 17, colourised pictures to show that even seventy years on, the essence of evil never evolves
Shocking images show piles of gold wedding bands and children begging for food in the Warsaw ghetto
Piles of bodies at Buchenwald can be seen in the moving series as well as Auschwitz prisoner Michaø Liborski

Heartbreaking images of the Holocaust have been colourised to show the true horrors of World War II and make deniers of the genocide 'see more closely the barbarism they defend.'
In the series of striking shots starving children can be seen begging for food in the Warsaw ghetto and the bodies of prisoners at Buchenwald concentration camp are looked at by American Senator Alben W. Barkley, a member of a committee investigating Nazi atrocities.
Other shocking images show piles of gold wedding bands removed by guards and the exhumed bodies of 30 Jewish women are lined up as German citizens are forced to walk by.
The original black and white photographs were colourised by Joel Bellviure, 17, who lives in Spain.

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Starving children are shown asking for alms in the Warsaw ghetto, Poland. The heartbreaking image was taken by German soldier Heinz Joest during a days leave for his birthday on 19 September 1941. The Warsaw ghetto was the most prominent German ghetto in Europe, created after the conquest of Poland in the autumn of 1940. 400,000 Jews were moved from their homes to live under strict surveillance, with an average of nine people in each room

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Senator Alben W. Barkley, member of a committee investigating Nazi atrocities takes a look at a pile of bodies at Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany on 24 April 1945. Barkley later became Vice President of the United States under Harry S. Truman. Thanks to the tatooed numbers for the first time one of the victims has been identified as Leb Katz (1906-1945)

He said he made the project to combat Holocaust deniers and to show that even seventy years on 'the essence of evil will never evolve.'
Mr Bellviure said: 'First, because of negationism. All this time, the Holocaust has been abused both by academic history, as well as cinema and popular culture.
'The lack of a true comprehensive history and the search for answers to a catastrophe that killed more than ten million innocent people, including at least five million Jews, has left room for denial, which questions in an interested way the previous numbers or even the Holocaust itself.

superbeets · Sep 8, 2018

'They refer themselves as 'revisionists', although they violate any historical method and their only objective is hatred. Perhaps these images make them see more closely the barbarism they defend.
'The other group of people they are addressed to are those who insist that the Holocaust must remain in black and white.
'Although I understand this last opinion, I totally oppose it. The Holocaust was something that happened, and it happened in colour.
'A colourised Holocaust picture can raise awareness that, although being seventy years old, the essence of evil will never evolve, that death doesn't need to be romanticised because of being in black and white.'

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American soldiers forced German civilians from the town of Volary to walk past the exhumed bodies of 30 Jewish women starved to death by SS troops during a 300-mile march from Helmbrechts concentration camp across Czechoslovakia. The women had been buried in shallow graves in Volary, and the bodies were exhumed by German civilians working under direction of medical personnel of the 5th Infantry Division, to rebury them in a local cemetery. The picture is dated May 1945

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The prisoners on the left were held at a subcamps near the town of Ampfing and photographed on 4 May 1945 after being liberated by U.S. Third Army troops,. They were housed in barracks partially submerged in the ground with soil-covered roofs designed to camouflage the structures from Allied aerial reconnaissance. Pictured right are members of the 42nd Rainbow Division of the 7th US Army, who uncovered a wagon transporting people to the horrors of Dachau, 30 April 1945. The liberation was followed by the Dachau liberation reprisals, a series of incidents in which German prisoners of war were killed by American soldiers

The Holocaust was a genocide during World War Two in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately six million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.
Jews were targeted for extermination as part of a larger event, involving the persecution and murder of other groups by the regime, including in particular the Roma, ethnic Poles, and 'incurably sick', as well as political opponents, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Soviet prisoners of war.
Germany implemented the persecution in stages. Following Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933, the government passed laws to exclude Jews from civil society, most prominently the Nuremberg Laws in 1935.
Starting in 1933, the Nazis built a network of concentration camps in Germany for political opponents and people deemed 'undesirable'. After the invasion of Poland in 1939, the regime set up ghettos to segregate Jews. Over 42,000 camps, ghettos, and other detention sites were established.
The deportation of Jews to the ghettos culminated in the policy of extermination the Nazis called the 'Final Solution to the Jewish Question', discussed by senior Nazi officials at the Wannsee Conference in Berlin in January 1942.
As German forces captured territories in the East, all anti-Jewish measures were radicalised.

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Pictured are a few of the thousands of wedding rings the Nazis removed from their victims to salvage the gold, in a cave near the Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany. U.S. troops found rings, watches, precious stones, eyeglasses, and gold fillings extracted from inmates on 5 May 1945

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Prisioner no. 40472 of the Auschwitz concentration-extermination camp, identified as Michaø Liborski. Other sources point Liborskiís number as 20909, and tell us he was born in Czernice on 14 September 1914, and died on 15 April 1942, thus being younger than 28 years old when these pictures were taken by Wilhelm Brasse. Brasse was ordered by SS staff to photograph the prisoners for their files, taking up to 50,000 identity pictures between 1940 and 1945

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Executions of Jews by German army mobile killing units, the Einsatzgruppen, after they had dug their own graves, near Ivangorod, Ukraine, 1942. This photo was mailed from the Eastern Front to Germany and intercepted at a Warsaw post office by a member of the Polish resistance collecting documentation on Nazi war crimes

Under the coordination of the SS, with directions from the highest leadership of the Nazi Party, killings were committed within Germany itself, throughout German-occupied Europe, and across all territories controlled by the Axis powers.
Paramilitary units called Einsatzgruppen murdered around 1.3 million Jews in mass shootings between 1941 and 1945. By mid-1942, victims were being deported from the ghettos in sealed freight trains to extermination camps where, if they survived the journey, they were killed in gas chambers.
The killing continued until the end of World War II in Europe in April-May 1945.
'These are a tiny sample of the brutality and death that the Nazi regime unleashed between 1939 and 1945,' added Joel.
'The images are hard, but they must be seen to understand what happened in those years so close to us.
'I tried to show each of the aspects of the Holocaust. Not very well-known aspects are represented, such as the mobile platoons, who were responsible for an immense percentage of the Shoah, the sub-camps, or the theft of rings extracted to the prisoners.
'Even so, many minorities are missing, such as the disabled, homosexuals, or Spanish Republican exiles.
'I have no personal or family relationship with the Holocaust, but I believe both the dead as the murderers were united by a same thing, that is, that we all are human beings and this helps me to understand that at any moment we can and we have passed from victims to executioners.
'The Holocaust and the Second World War have taught us many morals, but we have refused to listen to them, and now we keep wandering through the deserts of barbarism hitting us again and again.'

Michelangelo · Sep 8, 2018

How could any sane person be a Holocaust denier?

Those pictures are haunting.

Dave007inVegas · Sep 8, 2018

Michelangelo said:
How could any sane person be a Holocaust denier?

Those pictures are haunting.

You just answered your own question.

SheriffJoe · Sep 8, 2018

The Kenyan's buddies in Tehran certainly don't believe it happened.

RunMaker · Sep 9, 2018

Holohoax, my friends.

You should do more research.

Amazing there are so many gullible folks who got their education from "Hollywood history" movies.

RunMaker · Sep 9, 2018

Look at NY Times news clippings in the early 1900's.... before anything happened. You will be surprised.

exploited17 · Sep 9, 2018

Michelangelo said:
How could any sane person be a Holocaust denier?

Those pictures are haunting.

Most deniers, don't necessarily deny it happened, they question specifics and numbers of situations and people killed. One of the biggest problems IMO is that this is pushed so heavily like slavery. While slavery has happened to everyone we act as if it is specific to America or white people Similarly the holocaust is pushed much more than the Armenia, Cambodia or Rwanda genocide. It is constantly being shoved in peoples face. It is one of the reasons Europeans cannot be tribal in any matter. They must allow their countries to be flooded and they must be "tolerant" or else it will end with some sort of holocaust. It is effective in use of control. There is a reason people like to label others as "nazis"

RunMaker · Sep 9, 2018

Did you know it's a crime to question the holohoax in some countries? Lol.

Can you imagine questioning slavery in the US being a crime? Truth does not fear questioning.