These 3 Jewish men arrived in Auschwitz on the same day, & were tattooed 10 numbers apart. 73 years later, @sandibachom photographed them meeting for the first time for the Last Eyewitness Project, as free men who survived to build families and prosperous lives.

honestly-whoknows on May 6th, 2019 at 22:56 UTC »

THIS THE SHIT I LIKE TO SEE

KarmaPharmacy on May 7th, 2019 at 00:06 UTC »

Saw an auchwitz tattoo in the wild, on a very old dying man in the ER about 4-5 years ago. His family was so kind to me. He was completely out of it. I never thought I’d meet a holocaust survivor. His body was twisted and mangled with old age. He was surrounded by people who loved him.

I still think about him randomly. The things he saw & survived... it’s just mind blowing to consider.

atreethatownsitself on May 7th, 2019 at 01:00 UTC »

We went to the museum in LA about the Holocaust when I was in middle school. We were each assigned a ID number and there were check points during the tour when you entered it and learned information about the actual person who was assigned that number, which camp they were in, etc. Over the course of the day, we learned about that persons life through those check points and got a history sheet printed out at the end. Mine was a six month old child. There wasn’t much.

But when we were done and exiting towards the lobby, we were approached by a group of older people. Someone asked if any one had -some number-. My friend Phillip raised his hand. The guy then introduced the older woman next to him as the woman he had been learning about all day. The ID number he had matched the tattoo on her arm. She was kind enough to answer a few questions. It was a really surreal experience.

Edit : The Museum of Tolerance, for anyone interested. Thank you to those who reminded me of the name. I recommend going at least once in your life. It is a very sobering first hand look at what happened during that time, but absolutely worth learning more about.