Today is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1945.

The UN named Jan 27th as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a time to remember the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and the millions of other victims of Nazi persecution- Catholics, Polish, Roma, gay,…
Reposted from Auschwitz Memorial
26 January 1937 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Esther Polak, was born in Amsterdam.

She arrived at Auschwitz in a transport of 1010 Jews deported from Westerbork on 28 July 1942. She was murdered in the gas chamber after selection.

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