Dachau Concentration Camp, barracks, Dachau, Germany Munich Germany
Auschwitz, Malkopolska, Poland Poland
Auschwitz, Malkopolska, Poland Stockholm Poland
Prisoners shoes, Auschwitz, Malkopolska, Poland Stockholm Poland
Auschwitz, Malkopolska, Poland Stockholm Poland
Dachau Concentration Camp, barracks & former barracks, Dachau, Germany Munich Germany
Dachau Concentration Camp, showers, Dachau, Germany Munich Germany
Majdanek Concentration Camp, Eastern Poland Stockholm Poland
Majdanek Concentration Camp, Eastern Poland Stockholm Poland
Crematorium, Majdanek Concentration Camp, Eastern Poland Stockholm Poland
Cell Blocks, Majdanek Concentration Camp, Eastern Poland Stockholm Poland
This set of photos are from a very tragic time in our collective human history.
In the face of economic and social insecurity it becomes easy for some to fall prey to propaganda, decide on a common enemy, and blame all of their problems on that chosen enemy. This can manifest in the form of racism, bigotry, and taken to extremes has led to genocides, forced sterilizations, and deportations of what is perceived as “the other.”
There are political movements today with similar ideologies rooted in 20th-centuery fascist movements, and historically the forces that created the events around WWII is not an anomaly. The same pressures that can drive a society to these extremes can happen again; in the words of Winston Churchill “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
In the face of economic and social insecurity it becomes easy for some to fall prey to propaganda, decide on a common enemy, and blame all of their problems on that chosen enemy. This can manifest in the form of racism, bigotry, and taken to extremes has led to genocides, forced sterilizations, and deportations of what is perceived as “the other.”
There are political movements today with similar ideologies rooted in 20th-centuery fascist movements, and historically the forces that created the events around WWII is not an anomaly. The same pressures that can drive a society to these extremes can happen again; in the words of Winston Churchill “Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
Ghosts of the Holocaust
Alexandra Buxbaum
Photographer
based in Chicao & Phoenix
Public Project
Ghosts of the Holocaust
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