Ode to Memory

                                                      Looking Out of a Window of an Aushwitz Barrack, Auschwitz, Poland, May, 2008 © Marissa Roth

Over a million and a half Jews were killed in the concentration camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau during World War II. Many of them lived in the Auschwitz barracks, originally built as a Polish military base before the war. Birkenau, a few miles away, was purpose built as a concentration and extermination camp.

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

In memory of all those human beings who perished there...