Picture Of The Time

"We remember above all that the Holocaust did not start with a concentration camp. It started with a brick through the shop window of a Jewish business, the desecration of a synagogue, the shout of racist abuse on the street."


British Prime Minister Tony Blair

RAF image of Auschwitz taken in August 1944 (courtesy of Aerial Reconnaissance Archives)

"It's here, where absolute evil was perpetrated, that the will must resurface for a fraternal world, a world based on respect of man and his dignity."

Simone Veil, Auschwitz survivor and former French Health Minister

Source: news.bbc.co.uk