Auschwitz I/Auschwitz II - Birkenau

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day in the United Kingdom (and also International Holocaust Memorial Day). The national commeration day began in 2001. The date was selected as it marks the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the network of Nazi death camps, by the Red Army in 1945: 70 years ago today.

I visited Auschwitz I and II in 2012. Auschwitz III (Monowitz), where Primo Levi was interned, was destroyed during the Soviet takeover. 

http://hmd.org.uk/resources/theme-papers/hmd-2015-keep-memory-alive

2012 in Twelve Photographs

Once upon a time, I started a blog. 

And now and again I remember that I have one. 

2012 has been and gone. 

Here are twelve of my photographs from the past year.

 

The Brecon Beacons, Wales.

Thank you to Jude and Sheryl once again. 

The V and A, London.

One of my favourite museums.

 

Lindisfarne/Holy Island, Northumberland. 

Eskdale, Cumbria.

Scene of Rich and Rachel's wedding. Congratulations, and thanks for a great day!

'Mariner 9' installation by Kelly Richardson.

Inside the reopened Spanish City dome at Whitley Bay.

Autumn.

Benwell, Newcastle. 

Overgrown gravestone, Westgate Road, Newcastle. 

More gravestones. 

 Opolska, Kraków.

 This is the route I walked to the city centre.

 Auschwitz II: Birkenau, Poland. 

Cathedral, Kraków.

Heavy mist seen from Brantwood, home of John Ruskin.