Friday, August 01, 2025

I don't know how people could live there, but they did.

"Reclaiming Rudolf Hoss’s House..."

Voice of America

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rUeXrwP4U5M&si=DAvXulb-rePYEy5_

"Retrieved from the attic, where they had been stuffed to block a hole, were the striped trousers once worn by an Auschwitz prisoner. Researchers are trying to work out who wore them by deciphering a faded prisoner number, written next to a small red triangle signifying that the wearer was a political prisoner and a nearly vanished yellow star designating a Jew."

~ Andrew Higgins

"A House at Auschwitz Opens Its Doors to a Chilling Past" - The New York Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/world/europe/auschwitz-zone-of-interest-house.html

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