INTRODUCTION
It is often said that an image is worth more than a thousand words. This picture of Auswichtz symbolizes, by itself, the brutalization of humankind. Throughout history there was never such a crime as the Holocaust. Six million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime and its supporters (Lithuanians, Estonians, Balts, Ukrainians, Romanians, Hungarians...). As Primo Levi said, the Holocaust was the biggest crime in the humankind history.
The murder of the Jews was carried out largely outside of Germany. Over one million were shot by execution squads in the USSR. Some four million were gassed or worked to death in camps in Poland. By 1942 the killing was on an industrial scale as Jews from every corner of Europe were deported eastwards to die.
"You who live safe
In your warm, houses,
You who find, returning in the evening,
Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider if this is a man
Who works in the mud
Who does not know peace
Who fights for a scrap of bread
Who dies because of a yes or a no.
Consider if this is a woman,
Without hair and without name
With no more strength to remember,
Her eyes empty and her womb cold
Like a frog came about..."
Primo Levi, If This a Man