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ARCHER at House 88

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3 months ago

The question posed in this @FT article about ARCHER at House 88 — “Should the Auschwitz commandant’s house be hosting exhibitions?” — deserves an unequivocal "yes." Such places are not monuments of admiration but sites of historical confrontation. Today, this particular site, the former home of Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Höss and his family, helps demonstrate how atrocity was embedded in ordinary domestic life and bureaucratic routine, rather than existing as an incomprehensible aberration outside society. To open to the public these spaces is not to dignify the perpetrators, but to expose the unsettling normality through which evil operated. The value lies precisely in forcing visitors to confront this proximity between everyday life and horrific acts committed in the name of ideology – an especially pertinent issue today. Equally important, as Raphael Minder’s article notes, is that the victims’ perspective must not be absent. Next month, ARCHER at House 88 will explore the life of Lore Sternfeld, a young Jewish woman who made film lenses of the type used by Nazi propagandist Leni Riefenstahl, before being deported and murdered at Auschwitz. Historical understanding requires both elements: how the perpetrators lived, and how the victims were erased.

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Auschwitz Memorial

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7 months ago

25 January 1943 | The camp compound leader, Hans Aumeier, Rapportführer Gerhard Palitzsch, the Head of the Political Department Maximilian Grabner, and functionaries of the Political Department who were responsible for the individual cases, carried out a selection in the bunkers of Block 11 in Auschwitz I camp. During the selection, three prisoners were discharged to the camp, one prisoner was assigned to the Penal Company, and 53 prisoners who were put in the bunkers between October 29, 1942 and January 23, 1943 were to be shot. The prisoners to be shot were under suspicion of conducting illegal activities directed against the SS in the camp or of having prepared escapes. Many were also considered eyewitnesses to the SS crimes. ▶ Watch a short video about Block 11 and its yard where shooting executions were held: https://t.co/Nf2ozhXD6f Among the selected were NCOs, officers, and higher officers, as well as members of the intelligentsia. The prisoners who were executed on that day included: Colonel Edward Gött-Getyński, Colonel Jan Karcz, Colonel Karol Kumuniecki, Cavalry Captain Włodzimierz Koliński, Wiktor Koliński, Mieczysław Grabowiecki, Karol Korotyński, Henryk Suligórski, Marian Studencki, Tadeusz Radwański, Heliodor Zaleśny, Zbigniew Ruszczyński, Henryk Stirer, Kazimierz Superson, Bolesław Borczyk and Eugeniusz Obojski, who prior to being delivered to the bunker had worked as a corpse bearer and had been present at almost all executions. See our lesson about the resistance movement in Auschwitz: https://t.co/C99VqQnuxi

AuschwitzMuseum's tweet photo. 25 January 1943 | The camp compound leader, Hans Aumeier, Rapportführer Gerhard Palitzsch, the Head of the Political Department Maximilian Grabner, and functionaries of the Political Department who were responsible for the individual cases, carried out a selection in the bunkers of Block 11 in Auschwitz I camp.

During the selection, three prisoners were discharged to the camp, one prisoner was assigned to the Penal Company, and 53 prisoners who were put in the bunkers between October 29, 1942 and January 23, 1943 were to be shot.

The prisoners to be shot were under suspicion of conducting illegal activities directed against the SS in the camp or of having prepared escapes. Many were also considered eyewitnesses to the SS crimes.

▶ Watch a short video about Block 11 and its yard where shooting executions were held: https://t.co/Nf2ozhXD6f

Among the selected were NCOs, officers, and higher officers, as well as members of the intelligentsia. The prisoners who were executed on that day included: Colonel Edward Gött-Getyński, Colonel Jan Karcz, Colonel Karol Kumuniecki, Cavalry Captain Włodzimierz Koliński, Wiktor Koliński, Mieczysław Grabowiecki, Karol Korotyński, Henryk Suligórski, Marian Studencki, Tadeusz Radwański, Heliodor Zaleśny, Zbigniew Ruszczyński, Henryk Stirer, Kazimierz Superson, Bolesław Borczyk and Eugeniusz Obojski, who prior to being delivered to the bunker had worked as a corpse bearer and had been present at almost all executions.

See our lesson about the resistance movement in Auschwitz: https://t.co/C99VqQnuxi

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