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4 year old Jewish boy, Istvan Reiner, smiling for his portrait shortly before he was executed in Auschwitz. (1944) The Last Smile of Istvan Reiner... This is the final photograph of a little boy named Istvan Reiner. Just four years old. He smiles innocently at the camera, unaware of the horror waiting just beyond the lens. Born on July 6, 1940, in Miskolc, Hungary. Deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in June 1944. This image captures a moment before Istvan and his grandfather were murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp — part of the Holocaust that claimed millions of lives. He had no idea what Auschwitz was. No idea that the train he boarded wasn’t taking him to safety. No idea that history would remember his face — not for what he did, but for what was done to him. Istvan’s photo reminds us of the human cost of hatred. Of what is lost when fear and cruelty rule. Of why we must never forget. © Reddit #drthehistories