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I walked through Auschwitz today. Through the gate that promised “work makes one free”. This was one of the darkest lies ever told. Over 1.1 million people were murdered here simply for being Jewish. The gas chambers. The Zyklon B. The crematoriums. This place is a reminder of what...

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🚨A heartbreaking but hard-hitting memorial at Auschwitz I. 🚨 A reminder of just how quickly things can change. I walked through this exhibit right after walking through one of the most painful exhibits at Auschwitz - one where cameras are not allowed. A massive mound of human hair that has been preserved. Nearly two tons of it. People need to remember that the horrors of Nazi Germany did not affect only one group of people. Jews were the primary targets of Nazi racial extermination, and approximately six million Jews were systematically murdered during the Holocaust. But Catholics, other Christians, Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war, people with disabilities, political opponents, resistance members, Jehovah’s Witnesses and others were also persecuted, imprisoned and murdered. And there was a horrifying distinction in how countless Jews arriving at Auschwitz were treated. Many prisoners brought into Auschwitz were registered, photographed, assigned prisoner numbers and processed into the camp - often for forced labor, imprisonment or punishment for supposed political or criminal offenses. But enormous numbers of Jewish men, women and children never became registered prisoners at all. They arrived on trains. They were selected. And those deemed unfit for labor - including countless children, mothers, elderly people and entire families - were taken directly to the gas chambers and murdered simply because they were Jewish. There was no crime they had committed. Their existence was their “crime.” At first, registered prisoners had their heads shaved as part of the humiliating process of stripping them of their identity and turning them into prisoners. But for many of those sent directly to the gas chambers, particularly women, their hair was cut from their bodies after they had already been murdered. The Nazis found uses even for what remained of their victims. When Auschwitz was liberated and the horrors were finally exposed, enormous quantities of human hair were discovered that had not yet been sent away. I solemnly walked through an exhibit that was nothing but a massive mound of human hair. Women’s hair. Children’s hair. Babies… Hair that still looked as though it belonged to someone. And knowing that every strand represented a human being who had a name, a family, a life, hopes and dreams before they were reduced to something the Nazis considered useful material. I felt sorrow knowing that this happened less than 100 years ago. This savagery wasn’t something that happened in some distant ancient civilization centuries ago. There are people alive TODAY who lived through the Holocaust. This particular video I’m showing you is meant to show something else: how quickly normal life can disappear. Look at these people. They had families. Careers. Businesses. Homes. Children. Friends. Birthdays. Weddings. Plans for the future. Some were wealthy and thriving. Some of this footage was even captured in color. Color photography existed then; it was simply far less common and considerably more expensive than black-and-white photography. And many of the people you’re looking at had absolutely no idea what was coming. Within only a few years, countless people represented in scenes just like these would be displaced, imprisoned, deported or dead. Families would disappear. Entire Jewish communities that had existed for generations would be destroyed. At Auschwitz alone, approximately 1.1 million human beings were murdered. About one million of them were Jews. Tens of thousands of non-Jewish Poles, Roma, Soviet prisoners of war and others were murdered there as well. Their bodies were burned. Their bones were crushed. Their ashes were dumped into rivers and ponds, buried, scattered across fields, incorporated into compost on camp farms and even used as landfill. Human beings reduced to ash. This is what hatred combined with unchecked power and the systematic dehumanization of other human beings can become.

Sarah Fields

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