Auschwitz-Birkenau
Luftaufnahmen 1944 1945
Teil I / Teil II
By the summer of 1944, the Allies had achieved absolute air
superiority. Long-range aircraft reached all parts of the Third Reich,
relentlessly bombing factories, oil refineries, airfields, highways, and
bridges. They landed direct hits upon railway lines and halted trains.
NAHUM GOLDMANN (World Jewish Congress, New York):
"On several occasions, the Jews of the Polish underground appealed to
us via the Polish Government -in- Exile in London, imploring us to ask
the Allies to bomb Auschwitz. It was not easy to see General Dill, who
was substituting for General Marshall.
He received me coldly. It was one of the most unpleasant conversations
of my life. He said: 'It is impossible. We have to concentrate
everything for the war. We can save you Jews only through victory, and
cannot waste energy on such things. In addition it would kill all the
Jews."
I told him: 'Do not be more Catholic than the Pope: the Jews themselves
are requesting it.' In any event, nothing came of it."
ARC Identifier: 306046 -
Auschwitz Extermination Camp , 12/21/1944
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ARC Identifier: 305998 -
Auschwitz Extermination Camp , 08/09/1944
Why were not a few bombs dropped upon Auschwitz as well? Why did the
Allies fail to make any real attempt to halt the destruction? Why did the
world remain silent? Where were the free press, the Red Cross, the Pope?
ARC Identifier: 305914 -
Auschwitz I - Oswiecim, Poland , 01/14/1945
ARC Identifier: 305906 -
Birkenau Extermination Camp - Oswiecim, Poland , 11/29/1944
ARC Identifier: 305905 -
Birkenau Extermination Camp - Oswiecim, Poland , 09/13/1944
On July 19, the Red Army entered
Vilna, formerly one of the Diaspora's famous centers of Jewish
religious and secular learning: the city of the Vilna Gaon, of the poets,
Michal and Yalag, the old synagogue, the Gymnasia Tarbut, the Hebrew
printing house of the widow and brothers Romm...
When the Red Army fought in its streets, the "Jerusalem
of Lithuania" no longer existed: of the 40.000 Jews who had lived
in Vilna, only 6.000 remained alive.
As Vilna celebrated its liberation, the Germans were not far away,
occupied in the destruction of the Kovno Ghetto. The retreating Germans,
fighting a losing battle, never once relinquished their prey.
They took their Jewish prisoners with them as they retreated. In the
absence of trains, they forced them to proceed on foot, thus adding "the
Death March" to the overflowing cup of Jewish suffering.
SHULAMIT RABINOWITZ (Kovno Ghetto):
"We walked for hundreds of kilometres, for three weeks, in
thirty-degree cold, without clothing, almost without food. We would be
given bread only once every three days, and occasionally hot water.
Sometimes they would put us overnight in some village church, and the
villagers would sometimes bring us soup.
I had already lost nearly all my strength. In such situations, groups of
two, three, or four people always form, in which each one helps the
other. I was with such a group. I lay down and said that I would not go
on. I have no more strength. I don't want to go on. My friends forced me
to continue. Those who stayed behind would be shot at once by the
Germans. Thus, all along the road, we would see people who had been
shot."
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