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Persecuted for her faith but she drew strength from it

THESE haunting portraits of horror have been brought to life so their stories will never be forgotten. Black and white pictures of prisoners at Auschwitz have been revived in colour by photographic restorer Marina Amaral.

The Brazilian’s work is for Faces of Auschwitz, a project that tells of the prisoners whose photos were taken at the Nazi death camp in southern Poland, where some 1.5 million people - mostly Jews - lost their lives.

The pictures were taken as part of the Nazis’ obsession with documenting what they did. Many were destroyed at the end of the Second World War but others survived.

Marina explains: “Faces of Auschwitz aims to recover these stories and present them through a modern perspective, so current and future generations will look back at those we lost, understand the roots of hate and ensure atrocities of the past will never happen again.

“Monstrous hatred was levelled against them for nothing more than who they were: Jews, Poles and Roma, Soviet POWS, Protestants, Orthodox or Jehovah’s Witnesses; disabled or homosexuals.” The project is backed by the Auschwitz

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ROUTE TO HELL Entrance to camp Deliana, a Jehovah’s Witness, was arrested as she was going house-to-house preaching about her faith. She was held briefly in several Dutch prisons before being deported to Auschwitz via Ravensbrück concentration camp....