Children…

Women, children and old people wait in a grove 100 metres
from one of the gas chambers in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.
Soon they will undress. Then they will be herded into a room. There, they will be
gassed to death. Afterwards, their corpses will be burned in ovens in the same
building or in nearby pits.
The people in the picture are Jews deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau from Hungary
in late May or early June 1944. The picture comes from a photo album compiled by
a German working at the camp at the time. The many pictures show what happened
to Jewish deportees on reaching the camp. The picture taken at the grove is to be
found under the caption: “Women and children of no further use.”
The grove is still there today. All that remains of the women and children is
their picture.
This book describes what human beings are capable of doing to other human
beings when democratic values have been destroyed and replaced by an ideology
advocating intolerance, hate and violence.
The book presents facts about the Holocaust and attempts to explain how the
unimaginable became reality.
With a new chapter about Sweden and the Holocaust
The book is published by The Living History Forum and can be ordered from the publishing house Natur & Kultur
Order No. 978-91-86261-26-9. E-mail: order@forlagssystem.se. Phone: +46 8-657 95 00
ISBN: 978-91-86261-26-9
The book is supplied free of charge in Sweden.
For more information about The Living History Forum: www.levandehistoria.se
E-mail: info@levandehistoria.se Adress: Box 2123, SE-103 13 Stockholm, Sweden