Graphic artists have been working for months to paint the pictures • Outside the train in Auschwitz, the road to the gas chambers and also daily life in the ghetto • The Holocaust in a way you have never seen
Jews from Hungary on their way to the gas chambers
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Courtesy of Yossi Biran
Hundreds of sad, difficult and happy pictures characterize the "Colored Holocaust" Facebook page that opened a few months ago, giving new life to what happened during that terrible period, and connecting the audience to the unimaginable scenes.
Young people often say that it is difficult for them to connect to what happened in World War II because the entire documentation is in black and white, and now both amateur and professional graphic artists come to make the memory accessible and tell the story.
The Facebook group, a volunteer project run by Yossi Biran, was opened with the aim of giving life to Holocaust images.
Byrne says that he started the project about six months ago, mainly out of a desire to make the subject of the Holocaust accessible to the younger generation on the one hand and try to produce a better and deeper connection and understanding among the general population.
To date, hundreds of images have undergone the restoration process by Byrne and other graphic artists, and have been given new life.
The project is completely voluntary, and Biran collects the photos in a variety of ways: "There are photos from private collections, there are some that I purchased, some that I found online and other sources," he says.
"The process involved in turning a black and white image into a color one," Byrne adds, "is not always simple, and can sometimes take a long time as it combines not only my independent work with a variety of software but also help from outside professionals. It all depends on image quality and source."
"The effort I put in proves itself in the field when reading the responses to the photos I upload in the group I started on Facebook 'The Holocaust in Color,'" Byrne tells us on the page centering the project and has nearly 4,000 members.
"The vast majority of the pictures I post in the group are pictures that came to me privately and in different ways. I usually do personal research and publish the story behind them, and do not hesitate to ask for help identifying the forum members. I refrain from using 'famous' pictures about the Holocaust and published In the past. "