A Jewish child shows her friends a dandelion she found in the grass while waiting outside the gas chambers. Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944
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A Jewish child shows her friends a dandelion she found in the grass while waiting outside the gas chambers. Auschwitz-Birkenau, May 1944
This is one photo from a whole album collected by Lilly Jacob, one of the Auschwitz survivors. She was separated from her family when they entered the camp. They were all murdered shortly thereafter.
She was later relocated to the Dora concentration camp. Just a few hours after the camp was liberated she was walking through one of the guard barracks when she saw a photo album. As she picked it up and looked through it she immediately recognized the faces of her friends and family from that day they arrived at Auschwitz.
Through some cruel twist of fate she had just stumbled upon a photo album of her family's execution a year earlier. That album contains the only recovered photographs of Jews arriving in a concentration camp, as well as a heart-breaking series of photos of Jews sitting outside the gas chamber, completely ignorant that these were the last minutes of their lives, chatting and trying to cheer up their kids.
Lilly, as well as the Jews in this photo, were deported from Hungary.
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