Update: Faces of Auschwitz website is now live

I think this is both relevant and important.

In 2004 I visited a similar (though much smaller) location in Cambodia- Toul Sleng. It was a school converted by the Pol Pot regime into a prison/deathcamp.

To their credit - the operators left things very much the same: torture rooms stained with blood, shackles on walls etc.

But the most brave and powerful thing they did was convert a large room into a visual studio of the victims - all captured in portrait in their terror as they were being processed for intake.

I left this place completely overwhelmed. More here: http://www.tuolsleng.com/.

Fuck.

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