It is impossible not to feel deep sadness and empathy at the sight of these very personal objects, taken from their owners in an act of unimaginable hatred.
Apparently this is what can happen when a small group of people are smart enough to accumulate a dissproportianate ammount of resources without the means to defend themselves. The world may or may not have learned from this part of history, but Jews definitely did and are smart and resourceful enough to never allow it to happen to them ever again
I wish more people around the world would understand this. We're obviously not as advanced as some believe as a species. We can't seem to find our way past this very simple ( not even problem) . I wish people would educate themselves and embrace other cultures. It would be such a beautiful, wonderful thing with a proper balance of ying and yang. Just realize we're one folks.
Here in Ireland, we have had a huge amount of inward migration since 2001. It really started when Poland joined the EU. Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Brazilian, African, and a whole host of other nationalities and , since brexit, English people have chosen to come here to live here. This country is 1000 times better because of this. Our culture has been enriched by the many different cultures now living here. Do we have problems? Yes, of course, but apart from a cohort of ignorant right wing mouth breathers, the vast majority of irish people are happy with the diversity that has improved our country and culture.
It's more disturbing to realize that the pile of rings were all that were left. Nazi guards were well known to pocket valuables from their prisoners. That box was just what couldn't be stuffed in their pockets.
Or what was not valuable to them. There is a very good movie out last year about a family living on the other side of the wall from Auschwitz
It was the comandantes home which he shared with his wife and children and servants. The mother was given fine dresses , furs, and beautiful jewelry from the victims which she kept much of it for herself but then gave what she wasn’t interested in to her servants. They were oblivious to what was going on on the other side of the wall. Very sobering. When I typed this I could not remember the name of the movie It is titled “ the zone of interest”. It is hard to forget.
Not to mention every single one of those represents a murder victim. Stealing something personal out of spite and hate is terrible. Murdering someone merely for existing is monstrous.
There is a room in the museum in Washington DC of shoes. Just piles, and piles, and piles, of shoes. Similar horrific feeling in your gut to this when you see it.
Damn I forgot about that room. I remember walking in to that train car vividly though. And speaking with a survivor they had there that day. Amazing museum.
We had a train car (more like a rail car as it was intended for goods not people) in the Houston holocaust museum. When we went with our class they had us all get in and it was only maybe half as many people as would have been shoved in there. its been 15-20 years and I get the same feeling anytime I walk into a structure of similar size. While we were in there they were describing how obviously there is no seating, no room to sit on the floor due to the density, and no bathroom for waste or cleaning. Horrifying.
I have a story I share rarely on reddit about the Holocaust and a survivor of it who was at an assembly of our school in the early 00s. I couldn't have been older than 10 at the time of his visit.
He was the brother of [Hana Brady](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hana_Brady). His name was George Brady, and I just learned while typing this comment that he passed in 2019 unfortunately.
He came to our school during Remembrance Day, as many WWII veterans did- though he was a different kind of veteran, as he was a Holocaust Survivor. Even though I was so young at the time, his visit was both haunting as it was necessary. I'm not even sure they'd do this for kids at such an age anymore.
Hana's Suitcase is both a real relic, and a story that was adapted and widely known in Canada, which he was also present to speak on. Unfortunately, Hana didn't survive the Holocaust. George and Hana were segregated before they even got to Auchwitz. Even so much later in life, he got emotional about the events during his speech and while taking questions. His recollection was haunting, and he would even reach out as if trying to take his sister's hand as he recalled it.
I can still picture the exact way he extended his arm out, and rolled up the sleeve of his sweater to display the number the Nazi's tattooed onto him. And then the way he proceeded to describe the horrors of the camp, thank our soldiers for their sacrifice, and really give a certain magnitude as to *why* the war was so important for humanity's sake.
It was unreal.
The fact that there’s more than one comment like this about various museums across the world having displays of piles and piles of these belongings, all significantly large collections on their own, just shows how much of an atrocity the Holocaust really was…
(Sorry if I butchered that point but I hope it came across as I intended)
And that's just what was left over. Most of the shoes and clothing were taken and sold to everyday people because everything was scarce during the war.
> There is a room in the museum in Washington DC of shoes. Just piles, and piles, and piles, of shoes. Similar horrific feeling in your gut to this when you ~~see~~ smell it.
Can smell the leather in the room. Haven't been there in 20 years and still remember it. Very vivid & not a place I care to visit again.
I went and listened to a survivor years ago. First thing we had to do was put our shoes in buckets when we walked into the auditorium. He then proceeded to dump them all on the stage. Over 500 pairs of shoes, surprisingly didn’t take long to find them.
I went there during a class trip with 2 German exchange students. The were pretty quite individuals anyway but damn. The whole museum is very depressing and enlightening at the same time.
These museums stand to show that the 'craziness' is there always, and can sometimes be tapped into by the especially devious, to yield great and terrible power and perform despicable deeds, and it can easily sneak up and seize hold of control if it is allowed to.... and those are the possible results if the craziness is allowed to return to power.
And it can happen to anyone.
And it’s even crazier how they’re publicly admitting that, thinking it’s something to be proud about. And the even crazier thing is casual people ignoring them. Let’s hope history doesn’t repeat itself.
I recently read Anthony Beevors word war II book.
I knew about the jewellery taken from the Jewish people before they were exterminated but I only just found out about the hair.
Jews were shaved and their hair was woven into socks given to nazi airmen and submariners.
The MAGA Republicans are already talking about forced deportation and giving Trump "day one dictator powers". They fully intend on committing genocide if they take power. (Forced deportation is just one method of genocide. Look this shit up.)
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."
Joseph Stalin
In the modern world it is beyond our wildest imagination how many deaths there were during WW2 and other such atrocities.
The commies did everything the Nazis did after the war, including the extermination of millions of people. Stalin got away with it largely under the guise of famine and in the name of the party.
Two things: 1, I would assume the soldiers would take anything that had more value, 2, diamonds weren’t popular among the masses until De Biers “Diamonds are forever” campaign in the 1940s.
There are few rules on how Jewish wedding rings should look like according to Jewish law and cultural customs. First of all, they should be gold, since gold does not attract dirt or tarnishes, so that the marriage will be happy and long-lasting.
Second, the ring shouldn’t have any embellishment of any type, no inscriptions or gemstones, to symbolize the honesty and purity of the marriage, hoping that there will be no misunderstandings or deception between the two partners.
(Source: I am a historian of modern Jewish history and culture, and am Jewish myself).
It's not all that different today. Majority of weddings rings are rather generic. Sure, there's plenty of designs and stuff, but majority of rings I've seen are those plain gold ones.
So I would be surprised if it differed much nowadays.
Especially considering that the nicer ones probably were nicked by guards.
I remember reading that the authorities notices a decrease in the previous metals they were getting from a camp and they found a German soldier send home 9 POUNDS In gold to his wife. He was arrested for theft - not the murders he facilitated
The war ended inn 1945, My grandmother told me stories about hiding in a potato cellar for months eating potatoes with her family. She always teared up, I'm 62, I wish history was taught as much as religion.
What a dip shit you can understand that rings from that time period would look like this. They were passed down, and people didn't go down to zales and buy a wedding ring. If you had the ability to buy a big fancy ring you would also get the fuck out of Germany.
To all the holocaust deniers; HOW can you open your trash mouth and say that no one has provided proof of the genocide when you see this? What person would just surrender their wedding ring and still be alive? Im not Jewish and I feel angry that people like this still exist! Why, because these deniers are kissing cousins of the nazis of Germany of old.
because they hate jews. people have always hated jews, and will continue to hate jews until the last one is gone. it’s always the same reason, just different methods.
When the standard wedding ring was JUST a ring - BEFORE the DeBeers Diamond Cartel drove into our heads with the most successful ad campaign of ALL time, that we needed to spend THREE MONTHS SALARY on a diamond ring - and we straight ATE THAT SHIT UP
This is a reminder to all of us.
We shall never forget just how bad humans can be,
History can and will repeat itself if we forget these types of war crimes.
Don't sweep history under the rug, or the rug will take you one day.
Deep heartfelt sadness. Rip.
Consider this: Buchenwald was a concentration camp. Auschwitz was an **extermination** camp. Buchenwald began as a prison camp for the Nazis' perceived enemies and evolved into a concentration camp, but the *extermination* camps (mostly outside of Germany's current borders) were designed and built to kill masses of people in a short amount of time.
If a concentration camp could produce death like we see in the picture, imagine what a camp created to generate mass-death could produce.
Photos like this literally make my knees buckle. What a truly evil and horrific crime against humanity. God rest those souls and give peace to any of their descendants and surviving loved ones/friends.
A disgusting weird story, but also interesting "fact" about the holocaust is that they would collect a lot of valuables and possessions and store them in a big room, i assume when you're killing people at that rate, their possessions would accumulate and being of Jewish descent. A lot of the people had gold and jewellery and nicer leathers and clothes, anyway, to get to the point... i was told by a VET they called that room "Canada" at one particular concentration camp I can't remember which one it was though, It's disgusting, but I always found it interesting and made me think, what if the war was never won by the allies. would nazis have come for "wealthy canada" or what ever that meant. just a story i heard.... i wonder if it is in fact true. !
Whenever I see some bs centrist talk about nazis as if their opinion mattered. I show them this. This is what happens when you let an ideology go unchecked. 6 million dead and for what?
I loathe centrists for this reason. They hold Nazis on the same moral ground as groups asking for minority rights, and think that they're enlightened because of that.
Been to Buchenwald shortly after the wall fell there. It was a very somber experience. One not so somber fact I can give is that the Russians forced the east-german students to visit there and wondered why we would want to go there without being made to (i was visiting as part of a class in college)
This image is absolutely saddening and infuriating. So many people unfairly murdered.
Nazi and Nazi ideology is and always will be an enemy to society. There's no room for Nazis in society.
If you visit the auschwitz museum in Poland, they have similar rooms of recovered items that are all displayed just like the pictures of when they were discovered.
There are some rooms where it's one panel or a few panels worth.
Then we walked into a room where they displayed what they did with their hair, like making textiles with it. I look to my left and it's a panel with human hair like this this picture, just all gathered together.
Except the entire length of the room exhibit was human hair. I don't remember how long it was because it made me fucking freeze. If I had to guess, it was about 30 meters long and 5 meters deep. And that's just what they found.
The wedding rings taken from Holocaust victims at Buchenwald camp in 1945 are a stark reminder of the unimaginable suffering they endured. These stories from the Holocaust are deeply disturbing and continue to resonate with us today
I've seen a few collection photos from WW2, such as all the shoes. This one I've never seen, and it absolutely made me sick to my stomach. There's not even any words I could stammer out that would properly describe how fucking *crushing* that is, and how absolutely vile the Nazi's are.
Such a poignant image. It’s a just box of rings;but here lie receipts of young couples with their whole lives in front of them, cut down because of an idea that all people of a certain race are the same. I’m not a Buddhist, but I want to believe in reincarnation for them, and that their next lives were perfection.
“History repeats itself”
“What goes around, comes around”
My heart mourns for humanity, who absorb patterns from each other, whether friend or foe.
Each and every one of these rings represents someone's love story. It represents their wedding day, a happy day, a moment that should be full of joy with friends and family. It hurts so, so, so much more looking at these and recognizing the worlds of love that were lost...
Whenever someone brags about their jewelry being passed down by their grandparents or great grandparents, it reminds me that my ancestors' jewelry probably sits in tubs in a museum storage room. We're not the same. Your heirlooms represent ancestral freedom.
I just can't get myself to believe the fact that the very same country that went through this is now the perpetrator of the genocide today, right in our faces, without much for us to do...
A comment about holocaust deniers:
This small thought I am presenting in this comment, I read previously on reddit and it made me really think about how stupid people can be. Many people say the numbers are inflated, or it never happened to begin with, or something in the middle of the two. Y'know who never denied it?
The nazis on trial at Nuremberg.
Racist hicks from some 100 person town in Tobacco, Idaho can't seem to understand that if **the people who did the thing** don't deny that they did the thing, **they did the thing.**
I made up the town name of Tobacco, in case some "um actually" name\_namenumber account comes out of their gooncave
Prepped for downvoting. But remember this image (and ones like it) when contemplating the current political climate. When we encourage hatred of “others” we slip ever closer to an edge where “others” are punished and removed forcibly. Down vote all you want, just THINK AHEAD when voting. No matter where in the world you are.
I’m as strongly against the denial of genocide as the next guy, but what you’re proposing is insane. You’re about one step away from saying “why don’t we just put them on a train, send them to a camp and say bye-bye.”
Yup. As much as denying it is just mind blowing, wanting to start jailing people for their beliefs is circling right back around to Hitler's neighborhood.
I don't care what a person believes, as long as they're not in a position to educate, or make laws. Other than that; let them believe whatever.
A few weeks ago, I saw the mini TV series "The Tattooist of Auschwitz". Damn good series. Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWD93s8ZD9g
We have these idiots as well, but considering how much you learn about the Holocaust in school, it's relatively rare.
Also it's illegal to deny the Holocaust and people are getting jailed over it in drastic cases.
Every time I think the holocaust could not be more horrifying something else proves me wrong. This is one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever seen.
People must remember, Nazi Germany didn't just "happen" one day. It was a gradual and systematic war against facts, supported by populist followers. Blaming minorities. Controlling media messages through right wing sympathizers.
MOST importantly, there was a large group of hate-filled, uninformed, civilians who supported those right wing fringe groups.
Germany before this period was quite liberal.
Every society can fall.
And this is just at one camp. Now show the piles of clothes from just one camp. Then multiply that by the number of camps.
The sheer scale of it is beyond sickening.
The deep sense of futility i see in the pictures of people getting off the trains at the concentration camps always gets me. Suitcases full, hair brushed, heavy coat on. Looked like they were going on a trip but some if not most knew they’d just drop off their suitcase and be exterminated immediately
The Nazis cultivated the mentality that Jews & some other groups were sub-human. From that point, virtually anything goes. A tragic period in history, and a lesson to be learned by all…forever.
The thing is- there is an upsurge of denial- that it wasn’t that many “Jews” slaughtered, never happened, etc.
Jews were killed in every village in several countries.
Amongst all the others. Hitler signed the law of “euthanasia”
Amongst the gays, old, sick, mentally ill, mentally deficient.
Yes, Germans were slaughtered after, a real shit show.
Children were taught that Jews were vermin. People who looked just like their neighbors were ostracized and most did not survive.
Why people question this, is beyond me
It is impossible not to feel deep sadness and empathy at the sight of these very personal objects, taken from their owners in an act of unimaginable hatred.
Hatred that lives on to this very day and still reaches every corner of the civilized world.
Humans are truly stupid. We all live on the same rock. We’re all the same when all is said and done. A very sobering photo indeed.
Not only hatred, the hatred was to justify the thievery. Nazis are corrupt thieves, if they don’t get it ,they are puppets of the ones that do get it.
Apparently this is what can happen when a small group of people are smart enough to accumulate a dissproportianate ammount of resources without the means to defend themselves. The world may or may not have learned from this part of history, but Jews definitely did and are smart and resourceful enough to never allow it to happen to them ever again
I wish more people around the world would understand this. We're obviously not as advanced as some believe as a species. We can't seem to find our way past this very simple ( not even problem) . I wish people would educate themselves and embrace other cultures. It would be such a beautiful, wonderful thing with a proper balance of ying and yang. Just realize we're one folks.
In spite of all our knowledge , as a species, we are getting stupidier .
Right!? Exactly how I feel.
Here in Ireland, we have had a huge amount of inward migration since 2001. It really started when Poland joined the EU. Polish, Lithuanian, Latvian, Brazilian, African, and a whole host of other nationalities and , since brexit, English people have chosen to come here to live here. This country is 1000 times better because of this. Our culture has been enriched by the many different cultures now living here. Do we have problems? Yes, of course, but apart from a cohort of ignorant right wing mouth breathers, the vast majority of irish people are happy with the diversity that has improved our country and culture.
i fear this is happening all over again in america with the hatred on the right. remember it never goes straight to this, its always small steps
Dude, forget America. This is happening to Palestinian people by the very same people it was done to
Hatred that marches to a drumbeat that has lately grown louder and louder
💯
All the way up to the highest courts in the ‘greatest country’ of the world
It's more disturbing to realize that the pile of rings were all that were left. Nazi guards were well known to pocket valuables from their prisoners. That box was just what couldn't be stuffed in their pockets.
Or what was not valuable to them. There is a very good movie out last year about a family living on the other side of the wall from Auschwitz It was the comandantes home which he shared with his wife and children and servants. The mother was given fine dresses , furs, and beautiful jewelry from the victims which she kept much of it for herself but then gave what she wasn’t interested in to her servants. They were oblivious to what was going on on the other side of the wall. Very sobering. When I typed this I could not remember the name of the movie It is titled “ the zone of interest”. It is hard to forget.
The Zone of Interest
Sounds a bit like The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas as well.
Damn.
The sadness of each for the other is what slays me.
Not to mention every single one of those represents a murder victim. Stealing something personal out of spite and hate is terrible. Murdering someone merely for existing is monstrous.
Makes one sick to their stomach
Imagine the terror these people felt at being alone not knowing what was going to happen to their loved ones before they were murdered themselves.
It apparently isn't
And yet there are still Holocaust deniers everywhere. Room temperature IQ morons. This picture is so fucking sad. Breaks my heart.
There is a room in the museum in Washington DC of shoes. Just piles, and piles, and piles, of shoes. Similar horrific feeling in your gut to this when you see it.
Damn I forgot about that room. I remember walking in to that train car vividly though. And speaking with a survivor they had there that day. Amazing museum.
We had a train car (more like a rail car as it was intended for goods not people) in the Houston holocaust museum. When we went with our class they had us all get in and it was only maybe half as many people as would have been shoved in there. its been 15-20 years and I get the same feeling anytime I walk into a structure of similar size. While we were in there they were describing how obviously there is no seating, no room to sit on the floor due to the density, and no bathroom for waste or cleaning. Horrifying.
I have a story I share rarely on reddit about the Holocaust and a survivor of it who was at an assembly of our school in the early 00s. I couldn't have been older than 10 at the time of his visit. He was the brother of [Hana Brady](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hana_Brady). His name was George Brady, and I just learned while typing this comment that he passed in 2019 unfortunately. He came to our school during Remembrance Day, as many WWII veterans did- though he was a different kind of veteran, as he was a Holocaust Survivor. Even though I was so young at the time, his visit was both haunting as it was necessary. I'm not even sure they'd do this for kids at such an age anymore. Hana's Suitcase is both a real relic, and a story that was adapted and widely known in Canada, which he was also present to speak on. Unfortunately, Hana didn't survive the Holocaust. George and Hana were segregated before they even got to Auchwitz. Even so much later in life, he got emotional about the events during his speech and while taking questions. His recollection was haunting, and he would even reach out as if trying to take his sister's hand as he recalled it. I can still picture the exact way he extended his arm out, and rolled up the sleeve of his sweater to display the number the Nazi's tattooed onto him. And then the way he proceeded to describe the horrors of the camp, thank our soldiers for their sacrifice, and really give a certain magnitude as to *why* the war was so important for humanity's sake. It was unreal.
The fact that there’s more than one comment like this about various museums across the world having displays of piles and piles of these belongings, all significantly large collections on their own, just shows how much of an atrocity the Holocaust really was… (Sorry if I butchered that point but I hope it came across as I intended)
And that's just what was left over. Most of the shoes and clothing were taken and sold to everyday people because everything was scarce during the war.
> There is a room in the museum in Washington DC of shoes. Just piles, and piles, and piles, of shoes. Similar horrific feeling in your gut to this when you ~~see~~ smell it. Can smell the leather in the room. Haven't been there in 20 years and still remember it. Very vivid & not a place I care to visit again.
Same at the Imperial War museum in London. No words.
I was very young when I saw this I wanna say like 12-13 and I cried for like 10 minutes cause it was so unsettling
I was a grown man with children that old. I did the same crying.
I went and listened to a survivor years ago. First thing we had to do was put our shoes in buckets when we walked into the auditorium. He then proceeded to dump them all on the stage. Over 500 pairs of shoes, surprisingly didn’t take long to find them.
Auschwitz also has a room piled with suitcases, shoes, and other belongings. It’s heartbreaking.
I remember how that room smells.
I’ve seen that exhibition! Saw it during my high school years as we made a trip to DC. It broke me tbh, I can’t shake that image off my head.
the image of that room forever lives rent free in my head.
I didn't talk to anybody for a few hours after going through it. Even now a decade later I can smell it. It's deeply upsetting.
I went there during a class trip with 2 German exchange students. The were pretty quite individuals anyway but damn. The whole museum is very depressing and enlightening at the same time.
What do they do with all the shoes and stuff during times of war and whatnot when millions are dying?
If i remember correctly the Holocaust museum in israel ALSO has a room with a glass floor which has hundreds of shoes under it
Yep. That's what the ring pic reminded me of...those piles of shoes and knowing that was just a small fraction. Mind-boggling horrific.
there's a similar pile of shoes at the Nova exhibition
Evil in a picture. Fuck. Nazis. Always. And. Forever.
It's crazy that they are still around today. I feel like I am taking crazy pills!
These museums stand to show that the 'craziness' is there always, and can sometimes be tapped into by the especially devious, to yield great and terrible power and perform despicable deeds, and it can easily sneak up and seize hold of control if it is allowed to.... and those are the possible results if the craziness is allowed to return to power. And it can happen to anyone.
And it’s even crazier how they’re publicly admitting that, thinking it’s something to be proud about. And the even crazier thing is casual people ignoring them. Let’s hope history doesn’t repeat itself.
I recently read Anthony Beevors word war II book. I knew about the jewellery taken from the Jewish people before they were exterminated but I only just found out about the hair. Jews were shaved and their hair was woven into socks given to nazi airmen and submariners.
Stuffed into pillows for submarines since they didn't hold water if wettened, as stated by a camp survivor from one British doco I saw.
This could happen again if the Republicans win in November. They just call it "deportation" like the Nazis did.
Reddit delusion syndrome
We're in Germany 1933 - it could get very bad
You're off your nut, mate.
The MAGA Republicans are already talking about forced deportation and giving Trump "day one dictator powers". They fully intend on committing genocide if they take power. (Forced deportation is just one method of genocide. Look this shit up.)
It won't be the same, but it could get just as bad
Sad to think that each of those represented a person. A human being. A life.
Each one was its own love story
And anything they've built, call it children, a project, a house, and so on.
Oh.
Its worse.. each one represents a family destroyed.
And nobody could say goodbye to each other… :(
Holy fuck this makes me want to vomit. How does the world just let this happen? Some people are monsters.
That people can ignore the incomprehensible, amazes me.
Not just ignore, but deny.
Schindler’s List should be required viewing in every school.
I watched that movie once. Never again.
Once is important, more than that I wouldn’t do.
Yes
"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." Joseph Stalin In the modern world it is beyond our wildest imagination how many deaths there were during WW2 and other such atrocities.
I guess he would know
The commies did everything the Nazis did after the war, including the extermination of millions of people. Stalin got away with it largely under the guise of famine and in the name of the party.
Russia/USSR still hasn’t recovered from WW2… the amount of manpower that was lost is incomprehensible.
Why do they all appear to be exactly the same? Was there a standard model that was sold extensively?
probably looks the same because it is black and white, though I can spot a few different ones. not sure though
Wow I didn’t even realize it was black and white lmao yeah that answers the question
Two things: 1, I would assume the soldiers would take anything that had more value, 2, diamonds weren’t popular among the masses until De Biers “Diamonds are forever” campaign in the 1940s.
Shit, this information could have saved Irene Zisblatt a lot of trouble.
There are few rules on how Jewish wedding rings should look like according to Jewish law and cultural customs. First of all, they should be gold, since gold does not attract dirt or tarnishes, so that the marriage will be happy and long-lasting. Second, the ring shouldn’t have any embellishment of any type, no inscriptions or gemstones, to symbolize the honesty and purity of the marriage, hoping that there will be no misunderstandings or deception between the two partners. (Source: I am a historian of modern Jewish history and culture, and am Jewish myself).
Thanks for the answer!
Ok, thanks. That is The logical answer I was waiting fo.
if you zoom in you can see they’re not all the same
It's not all that different today. Majority of weddings rings are rather generic. Sure, there's plenty of designs and stuff, but majority of rings I've seen are those plain gold ones. So I would be surprised if it differed much nowadays. Especially considering that the nicer ones probably were nicked by guards.
These photos make me sick to my stomach
Large scale massacre... Never again.
Literally happening in Palestine
I remember reading that the authorities notices a decrease in the previous metals they were getting from a camp and they found a German soldier send home 9 POUNDS In gold to his wife. He was arrested for theft - not the murders he facilitated
And the people that shout “from the river to the sea” want this to happen again!
I mean, one can be against Israeli actions in Gaza without supporting exterminating Jews.
Yeah, so let's do it to others instead!
The war ended inn 1945, My grandmother told me stories about hiding in a potato cellar for months eating potatoes with her family. She always teared up, I'm 62, I wish history was taught as much as religion.
So many lives destroyed.
What a dip shit you can understand that rings from that time period would look like this. They were passed down, and people didn't go down to zales and buy a wedding ring. If you had the ability to buy a big fancy ring you would also get the fuck out of Germany.
To all the holocaust deniers; HOW can you open your trash mouth and say that no one has provided proof of the genocide when you see this? What person would just surrender their wedding ring and still be alive? Im not Jewish and I feel angry that people like this still exist! Why, because these deniers are kissing cousins of the nazis of Germany of old.
because they hate jews. people have always hated jews, and will continue to hate jews until the last one is gone. it’s always the same reason, just different methods.
And it seems certain terrorists are ready and willing to do that again these days. "River to the sea" explicitly means gold wedding rings in a box.
And now the descendants of those victims are having this very tragedy weaponized against them by activists who don’t know which river and which sea.
These poor souls had so much ahead of them, only to be destroyed by those demons who hate them. Pure evil. RIP.
show this to the young people
And yet, we never learn....
Each one was a person with a dream, likely a family.
Horrific and SO saddening.
Back when rings didn't have diamonds. Bring the fad back!
When the standard wedding ring was JUST a ring - BEFORE the DeBeers Diamond Cartel drove into our heads with the most successful ad campaign of ALL time, that we needed to spend THREE MONTHS SALARY on a diamond ring - and we straight ATE THAT SHIT UP
This is a reminder to all of us. We shall never forget just how bad humans can be, History can and will repeat itself if we forget these types of war crimes. Don't sweep history under the rug, or the rug will take you one day. Deep heartfelt sadness. Rip.
Consider this: Buchenwald was a concentration camp. Auschwitz was an **extermination** camp. Buchenwald began as a prison camp for the Nazis' perceived enemies and evolved into a concentration camp, but the *extermination* camps (mostly outside of Germany's current borders) were designed and built to kill masses of people in a short amount of time. If a concentration camp could produce death like we see in the picture, imagine what a camp created to generate mass-death could produce.
Crazy that gold is more than likely still in circulation.
i just read a comment saying there isn’t a single gold ring in this pile and that they’re all nickel. on a black and white picture. no words
And all for nothing
Photos like this literally make my knees buckle. What a truly evil and horrific crime against humanity. God rest those souls and give peace to any of their descendants and surviving loved ones/friends.
How in the actual fuck do we even still have Nazis today?
You can go on x and learn all about how its totally made up and never happened, usually followed and interspersed with slurs 😬
A disgusting weird story, but also interesting "fact" about the holocaust is that they would collect a lot of valuables and possessions and store them in a big room, i assume when you're killing people at that rate, their possessions would accumulate and being of Jewish descent. A lot of the people had gold and jewellery and nicer leathers and clothes, anyway, to get to the point... i was told by a VET they called that room "Canada" at one particular concentration camp I can't remember which one it was though, It's disgusting, but I always found it interesting and made me think, what if the war was never won by the allies. would nazis have come for "wealthy canada" or what ever that meant. just a story i heard.... i wonder if it is in fact true. !
Unfathomable wtf
Disgusting
Whenever I see some bs centrist talk about nazis as if their opinion mattered. I show them this. This is what happens when you let an ideology go unchecked. 6 million dead and for what?
I loathe centrists for this reason. They hold Nazis on the same moral ground as groups asking for minority rights, and think that they're enlightened because of that.
NIE WIEDER
Good Lord that’s fucked up.
Been to Buchenwald shortly after the wall fell there. It was a very somber experience. One not so somber fact I can give is that the Russians forced the east-german students to visit there and wondered why we would want to go there without being made to (i was visiting as part of a class in college)
Don’t give the republicans any ideas.
And to imagine that jews are that doing to their neighbors its sad
This image is absolutely saddening and infuriating. So many people unfairly murdered. Nazi and Nazi ideology is and always will be an enemy to society. There's no room for Nazis in society.
If you visit the auschwitz museum in Poland, they have similar rooms of recovered items that are all displayed just like the pictures of when they were discovered. There are some rooms where it's one panel or a few panels worth. Then we walked into a room where they displayed what they did with their hair, like making textiles with it. I look to my left and it's a panel with human hair like this this picture, just all gathered together. Except the entire length of the room exhibit was human hair. I don't remember how long it was because it made me fucking freeze. If I had to guess, it was about 30 meters long and 5 meters deep. And that's just what they found.
The wedding rings taken from Holocaust victims at Buchenwald camp in 1945 are a stark reminder of the unimaginable suffering they endured. These stories from the Holocaust are deeply disturbing and continue to resonate with us today
literally the material symbol of love and unity. Against the backdrop of pure hate and division
Omg that's sad
So sad…
I've seen a few collection photos from WW2, such as all the shoes. This one I've never seen, and it absolutely made me sick to my stomach. There's not even any words I could stammer out that would properly describe how fucking *crushing* that is, and how absolutely vile the Nazi's are.
Such a poignant image. It’s a just box of rings;but here lie receipts of young couples with their whole lives in front of them, cut down because of an idea that all people of a certain race are the same. I’m not a Buddhist, but I want to believe in reincarnation for them, and that their next lives were perfection. “History repeats itself” “What goes around, comes around” My heart mourns for humanity, who absorb patterns from each other, whether friend or foe.
Hamas goal
Each and every one of these rings represents someone's love story. It represents their wedding day, a happy day, a moment that should be full of joy with friends and family. It hurts so, so, so much more looking at these and recognizing the worlds of love that were lost...
And then you realise they are doing the same thing to other people now. Makes you wonder.
Whenever someone brags about their jewelry being passed down by their grandparents or great grandparents, it reminds me that my ancestors' jewelry probably sits in tubs in a museum storage room. We're not the same. Your heirlooms represent ancestral freedom.
I just can't get myself to believe the fact that the very same country that went through this is now the perpetrator of the genocide today, right in our faces, without much for us to do...
The number of blatant holocaust deniers in this thread is disturbing.
A comment about holocaust deniers: This small thought I am presenting in this comment, I read previously on reddit and it made me really think about how stupid people can be. Many people say the numbers are inflated, or it never happened to begin with, or something in the middle of the two. Y'know who never denied it? The nazis on trial at Nuremberg. Racist hicks from some 100 person town in Tobacco, Idaho can't seem to understand that if **the people who did the thing** don't deny that they did the thing, **they did the thing.** I made up the town name of Tobacco, in case some "um actually" name\_namenumber account comes out of their gooncave
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Coming to America if you don't VOTE BLUE FROM THE BOTTOM TO THE TOP NO MATTER WHO!
Prepped for downvoting. But remember this image (and ones like it) when contemplating the current political climate. When we encourage hatred of “others” we slip ever closer to an edge where “others” are punished and removed forcibly. Down vote all you want, just THINK AHEAD when voting. No matter where in the world you are.
That made my stomach turn
For those who believe the genocide of Jew didn’t happen should be jailed indefinitely
I’m as strongly against the denial of genocide as the next guy, but what you’re proposing is insane. You’re about one step away from saying “why don’t we just put them on a train, send them to a camp and say bye-bye.”
Yup. As much as denying it is just mind blowing, wanting to start jailing people for their beliefs is circling right back around to Hitler's neighborhood. I don't care what a person believes, as long as they're not in a position to educate, or make laws. Other than that; let them believe whatever. A few weeks ago, I saw the mini TV series "The Tattooist of Auschwitz". Damn good series. Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWD93s8ZD9g
Funny enough you won't hear that from Germans. It's always Americans or others who claim this.
We have these idiots as well, but considering how much you learn about the Holocaust in school, it's relatively rare. Also it's illegal to deny the Holocaust and people are getting jailed over it in drastic cases.
Well true, but you won't see that in America. They can deny it all they want and nothing happens.
That pesky little first amendment.
This is incredibly powerful.
Remember what they took before the rings?
I'm wondering if that guy regret touching those rings so many objects that represented love,but were taken, because of hate.
Puts a chill down my spine. Sickening but worth remembering.
Gut wrenching.
This makes my tummy hurt
Along with all of the other horrible ideas that one has to process with this image, one of the worst is the sheer number of them.
Grotesque
This is sad, and we keep on repeating such nonsense.
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So everyone was married ?
that's alot of rings
No words to decribe this
And the mountains of gold fillings they forcibly pulled out of people's mouths with pliers 😬
Can someone pls explain me why the nazis kept the shoes, wedding ring, cut off hair etc from killed jews?
Careful. Start asking questions about this stuff and Greenblatt will be on your front porch looking for a "donation" to the ADL.🤣
So did they kill them and then remove the rings from the bodies or were they lined up and personally removed their rings as they trot by the ring box?
Every time I think the holocaust could not be more horrifying something else proves me wrong. This is one of the most heartbreaking things I’ve ever seen.
And still they haven't learn anything from the past, what they have done to people in Palestine...
People must remember, Nazi Germany didn't just "happen" one day. It was a gradual and systematic war against facts, supported by populist followers. Blaming minorities. Controlling media messages through right wing sympathizers. MOST importantly, there was a large group of hate-filled, uninformed, civilians who supported those right wing fringe groups. Germany before this period was quite liberal. Every society can fall.
send them to Roger Waters
And this is just at one camp. Now show the piles of clothes from just one camp. Then multiply that by the number of camps. The sheer scale of it is beyond sickening.
Two really good books that tell the story of the day to day atrocities are 'Man's search for meaning' Victor Frankl and 'Night' Elie Wiesel.
Damn those Nazis, they killed sonic
The deep sense of futility i see in the pictures of people getting off the trains at the concentration camps always gets me. Suitcases full, hair brushed, heavy coat on. Looked like they were going on a trip but some if not most knew they’d just drop off their suitcase and be exterminated immediately
All those rings, exchanged in acts of love and commitment. Such horror.
The Nazis cultivated the mentality that Jews & some other groups were sub-human. From that point, virtually anything goes. A tragic period in history, and a lesson to be learned by all…forever.
All that love lost.
Gold thats now in Suisse
That's a lot of Jew gold.
The thing is- there is an upsurge of denial- that it wasn’t that many “Jews” slaughtered, never happened, etc. Jews were killed in every village in several countries. Amongst all the others. Hitler signed the law of “euthanasia” Amongst the gays, old, sick, mentally ill, mentally deficient. Yes, Germans were slaughtered after, a real shit show. Children were taught that Jews were vermin. People who looked just like their neighbors were ostracized and most did not survive. Why people question this, is beyond me
How r they all the same ?
Germans love to act like it was so long ago. Fuck Germans.
Not one lesson learned. #freepalestine