3 minutes agoAuschwitz's faces: Hitler's horror expressed in colorful photos
Periskopi(8 years ago)
(8 years ago)The horrors caused within Adolf Hitler's concentration camps are well - known, but a new photo project has shed light on people standing inside Auschwitz's ports. Photographer Marina Amal has launched a project to remember the Holocaust in the present. Auschwitz's “Faces” sees prisoners in the camp [...]
Photographer Marina Amal has launched a project to remember the Holocaust in the present. Auschwitz's “Faces” sees prisoners of the extermination camp brought back to the amazingly colored public forum.
“The biggest challenge of this project is increased color in images by respecting their historical value, as well as victims”, Amal said. “For this, the Auschwitz Memory Museum is helping in this process, sending me all the information needed to restore these photos and the accompanying texts have only accurate information. ”
In 2016, Amal used digital conglomeration in an image of a 14-year-old prisoner in Auschwitz. Czeslawa Kwoka died in the Auschwitz camp in 1943, reports “RT” Transmission Periscope.
Looking directly at the camera, her eyes tell a story of fear and horror that some of us, in modern times, can understand or link to our experiences”, Amal wrote on her website. “The expression on her face has not left me alone since I first saw her. ”
Amal has won access to 400,000 photos of prisoners of the Auschwitz camp.
Journalist Seamus Bellamy is working on this project to help compile this story.
Solomon Honig is another prisoner on the faces of Auschwitz. A Polish Jew, he was sent to Auschwitz in 1942. He was killed 13 days later.
Photos are believed to have been taken between 1941-1943, representing only 10 percent of prisoners of death camps./Periscopi/
