A few of the thousands of wedding rings the Germans removed from holocaust victims to salvage the gold. The U.S. troops found rings, watches, precious stones, eyeglasses, and gold fillings, near Buchenwald concentration camp, on 5 May 1945. From the photo description on Wikimedia.
Truly a harrowing shot; knowing there were hopes of so many people embedded in those bands, all perished and broken.
The Auschwitz Museum had such devastating effect on me and I still think about ever now and then. The rooms with the rings, the shoes and for my especially the luggage where families where prompted to write their names so it wouldn’t get lost are too horrible to comprehend.
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The Auschwitz Memorial on Twitter is both horrible and full of such much dignity. It’s does that by just showing a portrait and telling something short about someone’s life that ended there.
Hadley2313421 on May 29th, 2021 at 16:20 UTC »
Truly a harrowing shot; knowing there were hopes of so many people embedded in those bands, all perished and broken.
coolpaxe on May 29th, 2021 at 16:24 UTC »
The Auschwitz Museum had such devastating effect on me and I still think about ever now and then. The rooms with the rings, the shoes and for my especially the luggage where families where prompted to write their names so it wouldn’t get lost are too horrible to comprehend.
Edit:
The Auschwitz Memorial on Twitter is both horrible and full of such much dignity. It’s does that by just showing a portrait and telling something short about someone’s life that ended there.
Vollbilder on May 29th, 2021 at 16:36 UTC »
Absolutely horrible picture. Something about looting a whole group of people's wedding rings of all things strike me as particularly evil.