In 2018, the world-renowned digital artist Marina Amaral is given unprecedented access to the archives at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, where almost 40,000 registration photographs of people who were imprisoned at Auschwitz are preserved. By colorizing the black-and-white photos taken when these individuals first arrived, Marina aims to bring to life the victims’ humanity, giving… Read More
We would like to post an update and talk about the progress we are making with the documentary. We wish we could tell the whole story to justify why it is taking so long for the trailer to be out, but since we can’t, we will only say that it is for a good reason,… Read More
Among the millions of photographs that are related to Nazi death camps, only four depict the actual process of mass killing perpetrated at the gas chambers in Auschwitz-Birkenau. They show a completely different perspective, which makes them unique when dealing with visual material of the Holocaust and the Holocaust as a topic itself. They were… Read More
Eva Mozes Kor (born January 31, 1934) is a Holocaust survivor. Along with her twin sister Miriam, Kor was subjected to human experimentation under Josef Mengele at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War 2. She lost both of her parents and two older sisters to the Holocaust; only she and Miriam survived. Kor founded… Read More
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In October 2018, the Faces of Auschwitz team was honored to travel to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum to pay our respects. While there, we used the access that we were granted to the Auschwitz-Birkenau grounds to collect footage for an upcoming documentary that we’ll be featuring on our site. <?php echo do_shortcode(‘> Wilhelm Brasse… Read More
KL Auschwitz played a significant role in Nazi Germany’s “Final Solution” to its self-imposed and imagined “Jewish Problem.”: The Final Solution sought nothing less than the wholesale murder of the Jewish people in Nazi-occupied Europe as well as in areas assumed to be conquered later. According to the United States Holocaust Museum, up to six… Read More
When I decided to create “Faces of Auschwitz”, my ultimate goal was clear: I did not want the impact of this project to be limited by digital barriers. The central aim has always been to reach as many people as possible, taking the important lessons left by the Holocaust to all who want to learn… Read More