Auschwitz 1945

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Survivors of Auschwitz leaving the camp at the end of World War II, Poland, February 1945. Above them is the German slogan ‘Arbeit macht frei’ (‘Work makes one free’).

 

Photo taken by a Russian photographer during the making of a film about liberation of the camp.