Your post was well timed...yesterday, I thought, was the remembrance of the Allied arrival in Auschwitz, January 27 1945, thereby liberating the some 7000 remaining prisoners. I came to this site looking for some remembrance of it but didn't find it in the time that I had. So I'm glad that something was written.

We have here on telelvision what is called 'The History Channel' and last night (the 27th), they showed a very in-depth program about Auschwitz (I didn't see it all), then showed a movie called "The Grey Zone" right afterwards. They spent some time on the decision process of whether or not to bomb Auschwitz and how long it took to actually make a decision. Quite complete, in all, although I only caught a bit of it.

The movie looked at the SonderKommandos...I was unaware of these people's hardships and dilemmas.
They also looked at the escape of various SS members who tried to escape justice by taking on the uniforms of other service members then hiding out in various other cities and countries.
But they showed these programs because an International Agency had proclaimed this a 'Historical Day'.

Indeed, we shall not forget...

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