Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. And Auschwitz was liberated 75 years ago today. This boy was killed at Auschwitz 3 years before liberation (at age 7). He represents millions of others who died in such camps. Never forget!
One day that i wished didnt happen, power hungry people wants to spend their life destroying the world to please them selfs, sad that so many followed Hitler to not even benefit themselfs, just puppets on a string and when Hitler fell the strings where still in Hitlers grasp from beyond the grave.
To look at this sweet boy who should have had a long life is heartbreaking. What is just as heartbreaking is the rise again of antisemitism here in America. Such evil.
And that there are people who still belueve the Holocaust did not happen.
Little Moshe Hecht
Poor little boy
The gallery of children's smiling innocence on the link made me cry...To think of the cruel end to their little lives is too much to bare
Sad to know that so many children were victims in the Holocaust that the little fellow in the photo didn't get that much older than the picture. To think that our world appears to be moving towards such fascism again makes me angry, sad and fighting mad all at once. We people of good hearts and common decency need to stand together and stop this crazy-assed movement towards oppression.
What a precious, precious child. It's such a shame that there are such vile, twisted, evil people in this world. It sickens me that people can't see that this could very well happen again today. People need to read their history books. So tired of ignorant, selfish morons.
Also a day to remember the more than a million polish people who were also sent to lesser know concentration camps. The Jewish people were not the only ones who received brutal treatment throughout the wars.
It’s crazy to think that this was only 75 years ago. We talk and where taught about it like it was way in the past!! Sad cuz still today it happens just not to this extent
And they weren't just Jews that were murdered. Christians too. I knew a woman that was Eastern Orthodox Christian who was a survivor of the camps. Thatoo number on her arm and the stories she told me that she witnessed...i can't even speak of them. My husbands uncle was captured and enturned in the camp. He survived.
My father in law, also a Christian, was captured but excaped. Catholic priests too. And to think Hitler was Catholic!
Such a sweet little face. I always think how different the world might have been had all survived and the great things they could\would have accomplished.
N' oublions jamais. Plus jamais cela. La folie et la cruauté des hommes pour effacer de la surface de la terre des êtres humains.
Restons sans cesse en alerte!!!
So heartbreaking how could the evil Nazis do that to such beautiful innocent young children & babies, rest in peace little ANGELS, god bless you all, it should never of happend.xx
I show my daughter who is nine because I believe this will be lost and will happen again .....so much hatred I will never comprehend how people can do much harm
The Nazis think they were being “Christians” to Murder millions of people for their different beliefs and race. They were clearly making the Devil proud.😡😡😡. If some parts of Christianity involves picking on people and abusing (non-believers)-people with different faiths and even gays-(I honestly don’t care if people choose to be gay, it’s their choice)-that club I WILL NEVER join.
At least 2 million children. Jews are still under constant threat. 75 years after the Holocaust, it's an outrage that we still tolerate anti-Semitism. Are you listening, Ilhan Omar?
Man, he was a cute kid!
Where do you think that damn Hitler is now? Dead yes, but is he burning in Hell? That isn't even enough of a punishment for him!
Moshe Yaakov Hecht of MM Romania was born on February 25, 1935 in MM, and died at age 7 years old on May 14, 1942 at Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi Concentration Camp and Museum 20 Więźniów Oświęcimia, in Oświęcim, Powiat oświęcimski County, Małopolskie Poland.
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I'm a Founder of AncientFaces and support the community answering questions & helping members make connections to the past (thus my official title of Founder & Content and Community Support ). For me, it's been a labor of love for over 20 years. I truly believe with all of my heart that everyone should be remembered for generations to come.
I am 2nd generation San Jose and have seen a lot of changes in the area while growing up. We used to be known as the "Valley of Heart's Delight" (because the Valley was covered with orchards and there were many canneries to process the food grown here, which shipped all over the US) - now we have adopted the nickname "Capital of Silicon Valley" and Apple, Ebay, Adobe, Netflix, Facebook, and many more tech companies are within a few miles of my current home in San Jose (including AncientFaces). From a small town of 25,000, we have grown to 1 million plus. And when you add in all of the communities surrounding us (for instance, Saratoga, where I attended high school, living a block from our previous Mayor), we are truly one of the big cities in the US. I am so very proud of my hometown. For more information see Kathy - Founder & Content and Community Director My family began AncientFaces because we believe that unique photos and stories that show who people are/were should be shared with the world.
I want to build a place where my son can meet his great-grandparents. My grandmother Marian Joyce (Benning) Kroetch always wanted to meet her great-grandchildren, but she died just a handful of years before my son's birth.
So while she didn't have the opportunity to meet him, at least he will be able to know her.
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