A twitter account that I feel bears a close look

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**I recieve no benefit from this account**

She has been colorizing Faces From Auschwitz.
B&W has meaning, but it can distance us today from us our past.

Marina Amaral
@marinamaral2
Passionate about history, digital colorist. I restore and colorize black and white photographs. || Founder of Faces of Auschwitz.
Brasilmarinamaral.com
7,162 Following
100.1K Followers


This is from her timeline, you don't have to be a member to browse, but you do to reply.

Marina Amaral (@marinamaral2) Tweeted:
Work in progress. https://t.co/XNrsM07Zok

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2 more examples of her work
sniper from "C" Company, 5th Battalion, The Black Watch in position in a ruined building in Gennep, Holland, 14 February 1945. (link:

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/photo/1) pic.twitter.com/xkuF31kIrL


Marina Amaral (@marinamaral2) Tweeted:
The 5th Battalion landed in North Africa as part of the 153rd Brigade in the 51st (Highland) Division and fought at the Second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942. It also took part in the Normandy landings, while attached to the 3rd Parachute Brigade. https://t.co/bBjvlrPmSR

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[irisblue]

1. I did not look up any of the Faces....I can't do that tonight.

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