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Published: 2005-10-14 20:30:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 12101; Favourites: 388; Downloads: 947
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European Photo Trip #2: Krakow, Poland. Day trip to Auschwitz.The entrance gate that prisoners called the "Gate of Death" was located in the main SS guardhouse building. Trains carrying deportees entered here after May 1944 on the railroad spur that extended into the camp.
Auschwitz II (Birkenau) is the camp that people know simply as "Auschwitz". It was the site of imprisonment of hundreds of thousands, and the murder of over one million people, mainly Jews.
The camp's main purpose, however, was not internment with forced labor (as Auschwitz I & III) but rather extermination. For this purpose, the camp was equipped with 4 crematoria with gas chambers; each gas chamber was designed to hold up to 2500 people at one time.
Large-scale extermination started in Spring 1942.
Text sources: auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl , Wikipedia
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Very chilling and eerie considering what went down there. Good pic.
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Where does it say this image is stock?
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This is not stock photography.
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So you can't use it as stock in your photo manipulations.
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A gate from which many entered but few exited. A gate to Hell.
The colors in this photograph accent the heavy feeling very well. Even if one didn't know what it was, they'd still know something terrible happened there.
R.I.P Holocaust Victims.
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Very emotional picture!!!!
A very terrible place.....
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really gave me goosebumps....which means it's really good
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I life in poland ,this is place in kill many people...
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Very powerful photo, it makes me think about the atrocities of mankind. Very well composed, excellent contrast and tones.
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Oh wow, its almost like you're thre and you can feel the air. Its crazy. Love shot. The sky is soawesome and mysterious
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is that number 9 in the sky intentional?...is it supposed to signify sumthing? it couldnt possibly be natural could it?
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Not intentional, the clouds are just clouds!
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crapomondo!!!!! that is some mystical stuff goin on there! friggin awsome!!!
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nice! i have been there myself what a moving place to go.
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A very deep - dark photograph that has been captured with the best angle one could possibly achieve under the circumstances. The tonal balance is stunning... very nicely done!
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This is a horrible place but an amazing picture this makes me want to cry just looking at it.
Hitler is a horrible man I dont think there is even a word to discribe him and what he had done.
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This is awesome picture.
Auschwitz really was that dark place as the sky in this photo.
This makes me (and some people too I think) think about the people who died in there.
Kind of sad picture, but awesome!
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I think Ive never seen better pic of Oświęcim than this one
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I burned the sky using Photoshop. If it was taken on film I'd have burned it in the lab instead!
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it can be the gate of our house the school's gate or even the gate of our heart....^^...
in fact the gate that we choose...^^
nice picture....^^ ....
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this shot gives me goosebumps, i feel like i'm being brought to the slaughter. that sky is amazing, like its forever dark and brooding from the evil of the place. its a frightening shot, well done!
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Beautiful picture!
It's terrible what happend there!
But the picture was amazing... How you get it to be so scary! Because you get it to see that it have bin many, many people who have bin slaugthed there!
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I was there in 2 month ago ..
in a trip . ( about the holocaust)
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Awesome pic but u should have fixed the light in one of the upper corners to fit the black frame better. Really dark atmosphere in this pic.
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the picture is really good.
but who, the hell, would buy a picture with such s content? Auschwitz is a dark chapter of german history and i definetely don't want to have such a print anywhere in my environment...
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I love this picture. A lot. Would it be okay with you, if I used it in a presentation I making about Auschwitz? If not, I understand.
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Hey, sorry I took a long time to reply - I'd need more details before saying yes.
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very nicely done.. it sets the tone for what was going on.. it gives me a very cold and harsh feelin.. very nice..
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