Comments on: Ghosts of Auschwitz http://www.retronaut.co/2010/11/auschwitz/ Ever get the feeling you're living in the wrong time? Fri, 11 Nov 2024 22:33:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Bill in Canada http://www.retronaut.co/2010/11/auschwitz/#comment-28928 Bill in Canada Sat, 22 Jan 2024 15:53:01 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=8495#comment-28928 Thanks Retronaut, for your wonderful website and also this series. As a child of a Dutch family who lived through nazi occupation, and of a father who was imprisoned in Germany I was especially moved by the Ghosts of Amsterdam series. With this Auschwitz series you have just barely opened a door into a new way to bring back and remind us of the horrors that society is capable of. I have a book in my files listing the names and ages and details of roughly 120 family members who perished in these camps and one of these days I'll have the emotional strength to start researching and getting to know them. Well done with the website. Thanks Retronaut, for your wonderful website and also this series. As a child of a Dutch family who lived through nazi occupation, and of a father who was imprisoned in Germany I was especially moved by the Ghosts of Amsterdam series. With this Auschwitz series you have just barely opened a door into a new way to bring back and remind us of the horrors that society is capable of. I have a book in my files listing the names and ages and details of roughly 120 family members who perished in these camps and one of these days I’ll have the emotional strength to start researching and getting to know them. Well done with the website.

]]> By: Daniel http://www.retronaut.co/2010/11/auschwitz/#comment-19756 Daniel Thu, 02 Dec 2024 20:45:23 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=8495#comment-19756 These montages are pretty impressive. They connect times and spaces of the Holocaust. But there is one little mistake in the reference given. The sixth picture that shows the inside of a barack was taken in Buchenwald, a large concentration camp on german soil near the city of Weimar. It is actually pretty famous beacause it shows Elie Wiesel as a prisoner. You find more about him and the original photo here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel Thanks nayway for the pictures. Great concept and great realisation! These montages are pretty impressive. They connect times and spaces of the Holocaust. But there is one little mistake in the reference given. The sixth picture that shows the inside of a barack was taken in Buchenwald, a large concentration camp on german soil near the city of Weimar. It is actually pretty famous beacause it shows Elie Wiesel as a prisoner. You find more about him and the original photo here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elie_Wiesel
Thanks nayway for the pictures. Great concept and great realisation!

]]> By: Steve http://www.retronaut.co/2010/11/auschwitz/#comment-19330 Steve Mon, 29 Nov 2024 10:22:44 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=8495#comment-19330 The whole page is one of tribute and remeberance.The idea of denigrating it is shameful. Sometimes there are mistakes in editing, try to understand if you can that the mistake was not intended. But genuine.Take the time to look deep into the pictures and put yourself in that same location. Then take a deep breath or fresh air and thank your God that you did not experience it.Thank you for the montages. The whole page is one of tribute and remeberance.The idea of denigrating it is shameful. Sometimes there are mistakes in editing, try to understand if you can that the mistake was not intended. But genuine.Take the time to look deep into the pictures and put yourself in that same location. Then take a deep breath or fresh air and thank your God that you did not experience it.Thank you for the montages.

]]> By: CFC http://www.retronaut.co/2010/11/auschwitz/#comment-19277 CFC Sun, 28 Nov 2024 18:34:44 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=8495#comment-19277 Nobody believes the polish were responsible for the death camps. Don't be so sensitive or assume that people are stupid. Everyone knows about the Nazis and that poland was an occupied country, this is not some ancient history you know. You're sounding ultra chidish and defensive. Nobody believes the polish were responsible for the death camps. Don’t be so sensitive or assume that people are stupid. Everyone knows about the Nazis and that poland was an occupied country, this is not some ancient history you know. You’re sounding ultra chidish and defensive.

]]> By: Alex http://www.retronaut.co/2010/11/auschwitz/#comment-19065 Alex Fri, 26 Nov 2024 18:26:14 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=8495#comment-19065 Yes, it's a shame when the death camps are referred to as "Polish". The description of "German Nazi death camps in occupied Poland" has actually not fully caught on with mass media, leaving undereducated readers to believe Poland was to blame for the horrors of the Holocaust. Speaking of which: Poles in Chicago of the Kościuszko Foundation are holding a petition to stop this. The petition is precisely against calling WWII concentration camps "Polish" in the New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, etc. Please help better inform people of WWII history and sign the petition at http://www.thekf.org/events/news/petition/ Yes, it’s a shame when the death camps are referred to as “Polish”. The description of “German Nazi death camps in occupied Poland” has actually not fully caught on with mass media, leaving undereducated readers to believe Poland was to blame for the horrors of the Holocaust.

Speaking of which: Poles in Chicago of the Kościuszko Foundation are holding a petition to stop this.

The petition is precisely against calling WWII concentration camps “Polish” in the New York Times, Associated Press, Washington Post, etc. Please help better inform people of WWII history and sign the petition at http://www.thekf.org/events/news/petition/

]]> By: terry http://www.retronaut.co/2010/11/auschwitz/#comment-19040 terry Fri, 26 Nov 2024 11:29:11 +0000 http://howtobearetronaut.com/?p=8495#comment-19040 retronaut has apologised lets all get over it and move on..... retronaut has apologised lets all get over it and move on…..

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