wonderful the overexposure on the subject!

Very sad and dramatic. I like the black and white.

one hell of a powerful work of art, very very well done !

Tremendous one brother ! a lot of sadness...

wohoo, das gefl und die aussagekraft ist sehr gross bei diesen bild!!

Very sad, very dramatic and pure horror. You expressed all that in a perfect way. A very strong image really.

Excellent image that well depicys the horror of the place and time.

Strong and moving image! I like the black & white! Beautiful job!

very photolike and thought provoking..you aced this one

Horror and sadness .... a very strong evocation of (may be) the greatest disaster for mankind ... We have to remember... and hope for peace on this earth ... but I'm pessimistic ... anyway thank you ...

Strong and powerful statement. Awesome, yet understandibly sad image presented in tones that really bring the point across. -jay

Good evocative image, excellent art piece.

That's one powerful and very sad image , well done:-)

Truely historical image! Very GREAT IDEA and MEMORY!!!

Excellent......

I live in Poland...As you all probably know thats where everything had happened...I was there a few years ago I think you've made an accurate mood.Ive seen there tons of hairs, spectacles, personal stuff of people who died there. Thats a horrible view. We should ALL remember about this tragedy..and failure of the mankind...
Thank you for the pic

A moving image of a difficult and highly emotive subject. The grainy black-and-white adds to the impact. I have one technical quibble though with this otherwise excellent picture: I think the depth of field effect begins too abruptly and is slightly overdone. But overall powerful and very well done.

After just seeing the movie The Grey Zone based on the real-life events a compelling and harrowing film chronicles a unit of Auschwitz's Sonderkommando, a special squad of Jewish prisoners, who staged the only armed revolt that would ever take pace at Auschwitz. This really hits home to me as an Excellent render.

A very touching image. The individual's impact on the viewer has a stunning and emotional impact. A powerful message on the horrors of war.

Excellent image! Outstanding expression and remembrance of a very sad and dark chapter of history.

Very sad and dramatic!!

I appreciate very much such engaged art - no one should ever forget what Germans did in Auschwitz and many other similar concentration camps. All over the Poland, you can find graves of people exterminated by Germans during WWII. Only a few hundreds meters from my house there is a forest where 3 mass graves are located. Germans killed here several thousand people. One grave is for polish army soldiers, second for civilian Poles and the third for Jews. Let's hope such a madness will never happen & Germans finally learned their lesson.

Auschwitz and the genocide it stands for was managed by German and Austrian Nazis. Few things in the history of mankind can match the colossal crimes of the Nazis in their sphere of control during WW II. But if we want to learn the universal lesson of this monstrous crime, simply blaming others won't do the job. What too many people choose to ignore is the tacit or even open complicity of others in the Holocaust - from the Vatican to the police authorities in Vichy France and Holland to those in Poland who arrested and deported so many thousands of people the German Nazis would never have gotten hold of themselves. There are so many cases where the occupied locals hardly had to be encouraged by the Germans when they joined in the killing. Like in Jedwabne, Poland, where the local townsfolk herded their 1,600 jewish neighbors into a barn and then burnt them alive. After the war the Germans were blamed for this and it took the work of a US sociologist to publish the truth. The perpetrators were neither "ordinary Germans" nor German "security personell" hiding behind orders but ordinary Poles who murdered the people who had been their neighbors for all their life. Today the vast majority of the people in Jedwabne still refuse to acknowledge what happened or to apologize. Ignoring the 1940 Polish Easter pogrome in Warsaw, the countless cases of Poles blackmailing Jews in hiding during the war or the 1946 pogromes of Krakow and Kielce where 343 jewish people were murdered. Imagine that... AFTER the Holocaust... Had the people who did this learned anything else from the war than self-pity and hatred against "others"? In the 1950s and 1960s the Polsih government launched antisemitic campaigns and forced tens of thousands of Jews to emigrate. Today Polish politicians indulge in antisemitic diatribes which would cost any German politician or civil servant his job - which, sad enough, still happens every couple of years in Germany. I am a partner in a German-Polish law firm. We have close contact with Polish university professors and government members whose radical antisemitism is simply beyond anything I thought was possible nowadays. My wife is Polish. I am myself German. I am also of Jewish descent. This is not about diverting "guilt". Being obsessed only with the crimes of others and ones own alledged innocence is a recipe for dangerous ignorance and will sooner or later beget barbarism. Great tribute and sorry for stealing your time ;)

thanx lookoo for this...

Robert, just a question: What is a German ?