People

~Jewish family~


~The Tichauer family~

Ziamka and Zosia Buszmic walk along a street in Lublin.

Szenka Liebmann and her daughter, Florika, were killed by SS soldiers in the village of Weissenbach.

The little girl and her mother(in white dress) survived the war.

This is an engagement picture of Tola Broda and Izak Goldblum. They died in Auschwitz.

The Altenberg family survived the war by going into hiding.

When many people, myself included, hear the word 'Holocaust', the images that most often come to mind are of the concentration camps with bodies stacked as high as the roof tops, the gas chambers, the cattle cars that took people to their deaths, and the over-crowded ghettos. But, since taking the Holocaust Films class here at college, I have come to realize that the pre-war photographs of those who suffered in the camps and ghettos have a story to tell, as well. The thousands of pictures I found in the Holocaust archives show smiling families on picnics and out for walks in the city parks, birthday parties, weddings...everything that my family has in scrapbooks sitting around the house. These people were not always starving in a ghetto or dying in a gas chamber. They had homes, businesses, pets, gardens...they were just like you and me! I knew that before taking the class, but when a person only sees the pictures of mass graves and the ovens, the people slowly become nameless, black and white images in a book. Those pictures only potray the end; the photographs that were left behind when the people were forced to leave their homes and enter the ghettos and concentration camps show the beginning and everything that was so brutally ripped away.