Today we remember the 6,000,000 Jewish men, women and children who were murdered in the Shoah, just for being Jewish.
After being humiliated and discriminated, 6,000,000 European Jewish men, women and children perished trapped in the ghettos, suffocated in the transports, massacred by the Einsatzgruppen (with bullets and gas vans), and murdered in the six extermination camps (Vernichtungslager, Totenlager): Chełmno (gas vans), Bełżec, Sobibór, Treblinka II, Birkenau, and Majdanek (gas chambers).
1,500,000 Jewish children and babies were murdered during the Shoah (the biggest catastrophe, a turning point and a disruption in history, theology and philosophy).
Antisemitism, collaboration, silence and cowardice made the Shoah possible. Never again. Never forget. Never forgive. We remember.
Miropol massacre: October 13, 1941 (Ukraine) / Wendy Lower, The Ravine. A Family, A Photograph, A Holocaust Massacre Revealed, 2021. USHMM. & The Times of IsraelJewish boys trapped in the Warsaw ghetto. Photographs by Heinrich Jöst (German perpetrator). They were murdered in the gas chambers of Treblinka II. Żydowski Instytut Historyczny.German Jewish men, women and children arriving to the Łódź ghetto (they will be gassed in Chełmno in 1942 or 1944, or in Birkenau in August 1944). October–November 1941. Yad Vashem. 503/2101.Jewish men and boys from the Łódź ghetto being deported to Chełmno (1942 or 1944) or to Birkenau (August 1944). Photo by Holocaust survivor Henryk Ross (Warsaw, 1910-Israel, 1991). MFA Boston. Jewish children from the Łódź ghetto being assembled for deportation to Chełmno, 5-12 September, 1942. Instytut Pamieci Narodowej. USHMMBelongings of German Jewish men, women and children deported from Würzburg to Riga (they were shot in Riga by the Einsatzgruppen). November 1941. Yad Vashem, 7900/110. Credit : Staatsarchiv Würzburg. Four Jewish women and a little Jewish girl prior their execution. Šķēde beach massacre (12 km North Liepaja), Latvia. December 15–17, 1941: 2,749 Jewish victims (mostly women and children) massacred by Einsatzgruppe A. Ditches of 60-100 meters long and 3-4 meters wide. Yad Vashem, 1935/27. A group of Jewish women being massacred. Šķēde beach massacre (12 km North Liepaja), Latvia. December 15–17, 1941: 2,749 Jewish victims (mostly women and children) massacred by Einsatzgruppe A. Ditches of 60-100 meters long and 3-4 meters wide. Yad Vashem, 503/5105.A Jewish boy in the Kovno ghetto (August 15, 1941– fall 1943). 35,000 Jewish men, women, children were trapped in the Kovno ghetto. They were massacred by Einsatzgruppe A. Yad Vashem.
Jewish women being deported. “The fight and the destruction of the Bialystok Ghetto”. Żydowski Instytut Historyczny A Jewish mother hugging her little daughter and other Jewish victims being massacred by Einsatzgruppen. The original photo reads: “Ukraine 1942 – Judenaktion in Iwangorod”. Ukraine, 1942. Yad VashemGreek Jewish men, women and children being deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. 60,000 Greek Jewish men, women and children were murdered in the Shoah. Thessaloniki, 1943. Yad Vashem. Two little Lithuanian Jewish boys: Emanuel Rosenthal (b. 1942, 2 years old) and Avram Rosenthal (b. 1939; 5 years old) in the Kovno ghetto, 1944. They were murdered by the Germans in the Kinder Aktion of March 27-28, 1944. Photo by Holocaust survivor George Kadish (1910–1997). USHMMThe Auschwitz Album, May-June 1944. Yad VashemThe Auschwitz Album, May-June 1944. Yad VashemThe Auschwitz Album, May-June 1944. Yad VashemThe Auschwitz Album, May-June 1944. Yad VashemTallitot from Jewish victims. Auschwitz, after the ‘liberation’. USHMMVictims’ hair. Auschwitz, after the ‘liberation’. USHMMVictims’ shoes. Auschwitz, after the ‘liberation’. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Mother of three, sister, wife, Holocaust researcher (Tiergarten 4 Association, Berlin), Doctor in Philosophy (UNED, Madrid, cum laude), MA in Philosophy (UNED, cum laude), Bachelor of Music (Early Music, Recorder and Pedagogy, Koninklijk Conservatorium, The Hague), fibromyalgia warrior, and Woody Allen & Golda Meir fan
Antonia Tejeda Barros 