Tragic stories from the Holocaust are brought to life by Centropa, a Jewish organisation that has interviewed 1,200 elderly Jews in Central and Eastern Europe.
Centropa made copies of family photos, including more than 3,000 of relatives murdered by the Nazis. Hundreds of them died at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Some of the photos are presented here.
Holocaust Memorial Day is 27 January – and this year it is the 75th anniversary of the camp's liberation by Soviet troops. Nazi Germany murdered about 1.1 million people at the vast Auschwitz-Birkenau complex, nearly a million of them Jews.
Poland
Julian Gringras: “This is a photo of my younger sister Bala and my niece Giga. It was taken in 1938 in Kielce.
“Bala was maybe 18 at the time. I was very fond of her, [she was] a very lively, intelligent girl, active, very handsome, in my view. Nice eyes, and she had dimples.
“The girls worked in the photography studio; I think they spent some time learning retouching.
“Both the girls went to the Birkenau camp. They were liquidated by the Germans very quickly.”
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