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Auschwitz Memorial Dec 21, 2022

As the years pass, the last witnesses to the nightmare of Auschwitz are passing away.

What remains is the historical site itself, and the objects within it that allow historians & conservators to learn the stories of individuals.

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Listen to podcasts created by Bartosz Panek and Jarosław Kociszewski from New Eastern Europe. They invited historians @auschwitzmuseum to talk about different aspects of the history of Auschwitz: https://neweasterneurope.eu/2022/11/23/auschwitz-birkenau-death-at-a-wave-of-a-finger/

#Auschwitz #history #podcast @histodons

Auschwitz-Birkenau. Death at a wave of a finger - New Eastern Europe - A bimonthly news magazine dedicated to Central and Eastern European affairs

As the years pass, the last witnesses to the nightmare of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the death factory where more than a million Jews from all over Europe were exterminated, are passing away. What remains is the camp itself, and the objects within it that allow historians and conservationists to learn the stories of individuals. Their stories not only help to understand the tragedy of the victims who were exterminated here, but add a human, personal dimension to these memories.

New Eastern Europe - A bimonthly news magazine dedicated to Central and Eastern European affairs

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JenX Dec 21, 2022

@auschwitzmuseum @histodons

I took my kids to see the camps when we were on vacation in Poland (we're from the US). It's so important, even if it's deeply uncomfortable. The part that hit them hardest was the exhibition of drawings from the children's barracks. We spent that night decompressing by people watching in Krakow's Market Square.

History is hard to learn from sometimes, at least when you try to do it properly. Thank you for spreading these people's stories.

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JenX Dec 21, 2022

@auschwitzmuseum @histodons

Follow-up to my own post, but when I was taking history classes in school, they lacked any connection to the people and motivations of the time. It's easy to test for dates. It's not easy to communicate the personal side of things. I took a class my senior year of HS that changed that for me, but I know many aren't so lucky.

A big thank you to the teachers who share your passions in ways that help your students relate. It really does help.

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Bogleg

@m0nkeyh0use @auschwitzmuseum @histodons It's the "why" that makes me always come back to history. The rest of it (how, what, when, where) is just a framework for "why" in my mind.