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This film, which Mandić saw for the first time 20 years later during a visit to Auschwitz, depicts the moment when they received a letter from Stalin’s assistant Nikolai Bulganin, ordering their transport to Moscow by truck via Krakow. Oleg Mandić, his mother Neveka and grandmother Olga were the last alive prisoners who left Auschwitz. He learned to manipulate the thermometer and devised other ways to remain interesting as observation subject.

Mengele where he stayed under examination several weeks. However, as he developed high temperature due to stress, he was sent to examination in the medical experiments ward run by Dr.

When the Nazis found out that he turned 11 they sent him to the men’s section. After severa months spent in jails in Croatia and Italy, they were sent to Auschwitz as “political prisoners.” They spent eight months in the death camp.Īt first Oleg first spent two months laboring in the women’s section with his mother and grandmother. Nazis arrested the 10-year old Oleg Mandić, his mother and grandmother in their home Rijeka (Croatia) in May 1944 after his father and grandfather joined the partisans – the Yugoslav Communist anti-fascist resistance army. They included 108 Yugoslavs – the photo shows the members of the Mandić family with Soviet troops. Red Army units liberated about 4.800 prisoners of Auschwitz concentration camp who remained after their Nazi guards left. (Before retreating the Nazis blew some of them up in attempt to cover up their crimes.) Roll call of newly arrived female prisoners in the Birkenau concentration camp.Īll belongings were taken from the prisoners and brought to the camp chamber called “Canada.”īlock 10 in the Auschwitz concentration camp, where “medical experts” conducted medical experiments over the prisoners, so called vivo-experiments.įive crematoria whose furnaces burned 24/7 were built in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. (Part of these people were immediatelly sent to gass chambers without listing them into the camp evidence, which is thereason why the total number of victims and their identity remains unkown.) Nazi “experts” conducted strict selection of the newly arrived prisoners, separating the infirm, sick, people with disabilities and children from those fit for work. The camp fence consisted of concrete pillars and electric barbed wire. Most of the prisoners were brought to Auschwitz in special railway transports, in cattle wagons with a bit of hay on the floor.Īfter the prisoners would exit the wagons, the Nazs separated the men on one side, andthe women and children on another.Īuschwitz. The death toll includes 960,000 Jews, 74,000 non-Jewish Poles, 21,000 Roma, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and up to 15,000 other Europeans. Of the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz after its opening in May 1940, 1.1 million were murdered with poisonous gas, through starvation, exhaustion, disease, individual executions or beatings, and during medical experiments. The Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Southern Poland.

Remembrance is a precondition for prevention of the terror resulting from extreme nationalism which started through hate speech and backsliding from democracy.

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On 27 January 1945, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the largest Nazi concentration and death camp, was liberated by the Red Army.īy presenting a series of original Public Domain photographs and their descriptions from the online archive, digitised from the museums of former Yugoslavia, Meta.mk and Portalb.mk support maintining of memory of one of the most horrific periods in the history of humanity. United Nations have declared January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the genocide over 6 million Jews and 11 million others, by the Nazi regime and its collaborators during the Second World War.

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