The photo below was used by the online UK newspaper The Telegraph to illustrate a news article with this headline: Iran diplomatic coup backfires as Ban Ki-Moon attacks Holocaust denial
Young survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp
This quote is from the news article in the online newspaper The Telegraph:
As heads of states and delegates from the 120 members of the Non-aligned Movement looked on, Mr Ban (Ban Ki-Moon, the UN Secretary General) denounced Iran for its “outrageous” comments denying the Holocaust and Israel’s right to exist.
“I strongly reject any threat by any [UN] member state to destroy another, or outrageous comments to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust,” he said.
“Claiming another UN member state does not have the right to exist or describe it in racist terms is not only utterly wrong but undermines the very principles we have all promised to uphold.”
It is hard to find suitable photos of the survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, but that is no excuse for using photos like the photo above, or the two photos below, which were taken by the Soviets after they liberated the camp in January, 1945. It is a well-known “historical fact” that children under the age of 15 were immediately gassed upon arrival. Those who were allowed to live were starved to death, or tortured by Dr. Mengele (the Angel of Death) who did horrible experiments on them. So that is why photos like the one above, which shows children with chubby cheeks, should not be used when attacking Holocaust denial. Especially this photo should not be used because the children in the Auschwitz camp wore their own clothes, not the striped adult uniforms that they are wearing in these photos.
Child survivors marching out of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp
Child survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau show their tattoos
The only suitable photo, that I have been able to find is the one below, showing a young boy being carried by Soviet doctors.
Auschwitz survivor being cared for by Soviet doctors
Nor should photos of old women, marching out of Auschwitz-Birkenau, be shown in news articles attacking Holocaust denial. Old people were immediately gassed upon arrival, another well-known “historical fact.”
Old woman with a cane, walking out of Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp
Again, ridiculously bad research done on your part. those kids were the only survivors of Auschwitz because they belonged to Mengele’s research projects. He did horrendous things to these children. The reason they look well-fed is because as subjects of Mengele they were kept in better conditions than other inmates – they lived indoors, had better access to hygiene, got better food. Because they needed to be healthy to then have their health destroyed in the most horrendous ways. Stop spreading lies. You disgust me.
Comment by Thomas — September 19, 2012 @ 2:19 pm
Not all of the children at Auschwitz were the subjects of experiments, done by Dr. Mengele. He was doing research on twins. Only children, from one set of twins, are shown in the photos. One of these twins is still alive, so her health was obviously not destroyed. Some of the child survivors of Auschwitz marched out of the camp, along with their mothers. The women and children were marched out first, so they could march more slowly. The young boys, who were marched out of the camp with their fathers, were taken by train to Buchenwald, where they were put into a special barrack for children.
What about the old women who survived the Auschwitz death camp? Did Dr. Mengele keep them in good condition because he was doing experiments on them?
Comment by furtherglory — September 19, 2012 @ 5:28 pm
‘they needed to be healthy to then have their health destroyed in the most horrendous ways’. What nonsense. Could you please tell me how these children had their health destroyed? I’m not a doctor, but if I said they looked normal and healthy I don’t think anyone REPEAT anyone would disagree with me
Comment by DB — September 25, 2012 @ 1:21 pm
They are Jews, as are the previous owners of these skulls.
Only Jews suffered during the Holocaust.
Non-Jews were busy keeping silent.
Comment by Eager For Answers — September 14, 2012 @ 5:08 pm
Not only Jews suffered. Gypsies/Roma people, Slavs, handicapped, prisoners of war, and homosexuals were also all attacked during the Holocuast..
There were also German civilians who tried to help as well, who got punished for doing so.
Just wanted to clear that up.
Comment by Jaece — December 4, 2012 @ 4:42 pm
What nationality are the prisoners in the photographs?
Comment by John — September 14, 2012 @ 3:51 pm
Some Jewish survivors have actually pointed themselves out in the photos, so nationality isn’t important, some of these kids are Jews.
Comment by Danny Borland — September 15, 2012 @ 1:17 am
These photos were taken at Auschwitz-Birkenau where most of the prisoners were Jews. There were a few Gypsies who lived in a separate “family camp,” at Birkenau, but the Gypsies were all sent to the gas chamber before the camp was liberated. Non-Jewish children were not sent to any camps by the Nazis. Only in America were non-Jewish children sent to internment camps because they were Japanese or German and were a danger to America during the war.
The non-Jews who were sent to the Nazi camps were political prisoners who were arrested for fighting as illegal combatants or for acts of sabotage, etc.
Comment by furtherglory — September 15, 2012 @ 7:11 am