Auschwitz
In the course of the war, the camp was staffed by 6,500 to 7,000 members of the German Schutzstaffel (SS), approximately 15 percent of whom were later convicted of war crimes. Some, including camp commandant Rudolf Höss, were executed. The Allied Powers refused to believe early reports of the atrocities at the camp, and their failure to bomb the camp or its railways remains controversial. One hundred and forty-four prisoners are known to have escaped from Auschwitz successfully, and on October 7, 1944, two Sonderkommando units—prisoners assigned to staff the gas chambers—launched a brief, unsuccessful uprising.
As Soviet troops approached Auschwitz in January 1945, most of its population was evacuated and sent on a death march. The prisoners remaining at the camp were liberated on January 27, 1945, a day now commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the following decades, survivors such as Primo Levi,Viktor Frankl, and Elie Wiesel wrote memoirs of their experiences in Auschwitz, and the camp became a dominant symbol of the Holocaust. In 1947, Poland founded a museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, and in 1979, it was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The ideology of Nazism brought together elements of antisemitism, racial hygiene, and eugenics, and combined them with pan-Germanism and territorial expansionism with the goal of obtaining more Lebensraum (living space) for the Germanic people.[10] Nazi Germany attempted to obtain this new territory by attacking Poland and the Soviet Union, intending to deport or kill the Jews and Slavs living there, who were viewed as being inferior to the Aryan master race.[11] After the invasion of Poland in September 1939,
German dictator Adolf Hitler ordered that the Polish leadership and intelligentsia should be destroyed.[12] Approximately 65,000 civilians were killed by the end of 1939. In addition to leaders of Polish society, the Nazis killed Jews, prostitutes, Romani, and the mentally ill.[13][14] SS-Obergruppenführer (Senior Group Leader) Reinhard Heydrich, then head of the Gestapo, ordered on September 21 that Jews should be rounded up and concentrated into cities with good rail links. Initially the intention was to deport the Jews to points further east, or possibly to Madagascar.[15]
KL Auschwitz - Rare book "Compilation of essays about the coal knowledge" from Auschwitz III Monowitz IG Farben Industrie!
KL Auschwitz - Letter sent in 1943 from Stammlager Auschwitz (main camp) by a woman! Very rare!
KL Auschwitz - Letter sent by an inmate from Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943!
Auschwitz - Rare book about the colouring of metals from Auschwitz III Monowitz IG Farben Industrie!
KL Auschwitz - Winkel and number patch of a former KL Auschwitz Polish inmate!
KL Auschwitz - Letter from the concentration camp hospital in 1944 !
KL Auschwitz - Birkenau Very rare postcard from Arbeitslager Birkenau - Juden Briefaktion
WW2 - 3 Books from Auschwitz Buna Werke - IG Farbenindustrie - books from Monowitz library!!!
WW2 - 2 Books from Auschwitz Buna Werke - IG Farbenindustrie - books from Monowitz library!!!
WW2 - Awesome and scarce book from the library of Reichsuniversiät Straßburg! Book on disinfection and plagues liquidation!
Very nice KL Auschwitz inmate set comprising, among other docs, a letter from KL Auschwitz dated 1942 + other documents!
Letter from a KL Auschwitz concentration camp inmate dated 1943
WW2 Holocaust concentration camp Auschwitz jacket and cap from the same inmate - with Auschwitz stamp
Book from Auschwitz Buna Werke - IG Farbenindustrie - book from Monowitz library!!!
Incredible item! An ID tag that belonged to a KL Auschwitz guard!!! One time opportunity!
3 x Books from Auschwitz Buna Werke - IG Farbenindustrie - books from Monowitz library!!!
KL Gross Rosen (subcamp Brieg ) & IG Farben + photos - Very interested story !
Telegram from Auschwitz about prisoner death + envelope
WW2 german holocaust concentration camp prisoner's long women coat , maybe Auschwitz ???
Genuine empty 500gr Zyklon B can! Used by German Nazis in concentration camps!
KL Auschwitz - First transport to Auschwitz ! prisoner number 113 !
Photos of KL Auschwitz prisoner no. 9195 Weber, Michael
Dedication to employee of IG Farben - Auschwitz ! - "Meilensteine des Dritten Reiches"
Rare document from KL Gross- Rosen signed by camp doctor Willibald Jobst criminal murderer !
Very nice eggs holder from hospital Auschwitz !
Auschwitz prisioner photo
Auschwitz prisioner photo
$100.00 |
Auschwitz prisioner photo
Auschwitz prisioner photo
$100.00 |