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Jake on the ramp at Birkenau (photo by Krysia Jacobs) is known for concentration camp photos, and award winning writing in psychotherapy and social science. Alan Jacobs was also a consultant to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (USP-Marion), and has lectured and taught in many countries.

This photo was taken while shooting a virtual tour of Auschwitz/Birkenau that can be viewed at The Cybrary of the Holocaust.

Alan Jacobs' book: "Thank God for These Guys" is out - find out more at ThankGodForTheseGuys.com. Order now from Mt Publishing

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CHARLIE BOY : IT'S NOT A POODLE. IT'S A PORTUGUESE WATER DOG

IT'S NOT A POODLE. IT'S A PORTUGUESE WATER DOG

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PUPTOWN USA : Puptown is a Dog Friendly Area (DFA) in Chicago's Margate Park where dogs can run and play off-leash. Built in 2000, Puptown features 16,230 square feet of fully-enclosed fun (view the site plan).
There are benches for dog owners and, in the summer months, a continuously running water fountain for dogs. Puptown is open everyday until 11 p.m. Read more at http://www.puptown.org/about.html

Puptown is a Dog Friendly Area (DFA) in Chicago's Margate Park where d ...

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Guard tower in Auschwitz I. The barracks in the background are two story brick structures built with prisoner labor.

Polish Agency Interpress Interpreter/translator Krystyna Hnatowicz in Auschwitz Museum storeroom. She and Alan Jacobs have been married for 26 years. "Krysia" Jacobs is responsible for much of the technical work presented on the Internet:

A Virtual Tour of Auschwiz and Birkenau: http://www.remember.org/auschwitz/
Then and Now: http://remember.org/then-and-now/
Concentration Camps: http://www.remember.org/camps/

The remains of Krematorium III at Birkenau (Auschwitz II), blown up by the SS as the Russians were approaching. This was done in an effort to hide their crimes. Above the rusted container and stretching to the left is a barbed wire fence running all the way to the front of the camp. It enclosed "The Ramp" where people (Jews, Roma, Sinti and others) were unloaded from freight trains and "selected" by an SS physician to go to the right, or left; to the gas or to slave labor.
For interactive map of Birkenau go to http://www.remember.org/camps/birkenau/index.html

Jews were told to bring their essential belongings on the transport to "Relocation". Immediately on unloading, these were taken away and sorted in large warehouses in a section of Birkenau nicknamed "Canada" because it was a place of abundance. After unloading their human victims, trains would be loaded with the possessions of earlier victims and sent back to Germany. These objects are often all that is left of their owners. They passed each other in opposite directions.
As late as 1980, many such objects were to be found in Berlin curio and antique shops, being the only passengers with a round trip ticket. The objects shown here were left behind when the Nazis burned Canada to the ground, lest its contents fall into the hands of the advancing Soviets. (Jacobs. (1979). Canada. http://www.remember.org/jacobs/SmallSpoons.html edit

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