Personal effects taken from the prisoners at Auschwitz before they were taken to the gas chamber. These belongings were found after liberation, in warehouses at the camp.—US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Philip Vock
After the fall of Hitler, piles of personal belongings were found, all being stockpiled to be used or sold later. China apparently has done the same thing with their victims, many of whom might have been teachers who were rounded up by the millions by Red Guards in The Great Leap Forward and incarcerated and or killed, or they could be from one of the millions of people who starved to death in widespread famine that resulted from poor government policies of trying to industrialize the countryside. A list of mass killings that are known to have occurred during the Cultural Revolution, and even today China has the highest number of known executions of any country in the world every year, though the real numbers remain a state secret. Also Laogai prisons that believe in “reform through labor” (really a form of enslavement)- currently house over one million known people doing forced labor in over 1,000 detention facilities across China, and often harvest organs from their detainees.
Though things are just things, it is what they represent and the story they tell about people that is important. The reason why China would sell a Tibetan child’s used silver cuff bracelets that were used as brand new is the same as why they would harvest a prisoner’s organs to sell to others. Same reason.
- China is the world’s top executioner, but it doesn’t want you to know that:
- China Still Harvesting Organs from Prisoners at a Massive Scale: CNN Report by James Griffiths 06/24/2016
- Dui Hua’s Political Prisoner Database (PPDB): information on all Chinese political prisoners since 1980
- Laogai Research Foundation: raising public awareness about China’s prison system
- See this auction on Ebay: sold 04/13/2016 for $8.05 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 06/14/2016 for $5.50 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 07/28/2016 for $3.25 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 08/07/2016 for $7.50 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 08/21/2016 for $13.01 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 10/04/2016 for $1.25 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 11/16/2016 for $0.91 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 11/28/2016 for $2.25 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 12/05/2016 for $10.50 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 03/27/2017 for $1.75 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 04/26/2017 for $3.36 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction using the exact same photograph, different seller: sold 04/11/2016 for $19.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller as previous: sold 05/06/2016 for $8.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller as previous: sold 07/06/2016 for $11.05 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller as previous: sold 07/15/2016 for $5.50 as previous by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller as previous: sold 07/28/2016 for $5.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller as previous: sold 08/10/2016 for $7.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller as previous: sold 09/06/2016 for $9.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller as previous: sold 09/25/2016 for $9.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller as previous: sold 10/11/2016 for $3.25 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller as previous: sold 10/26/2016 for $2.25 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller as previous: sold 12/11/2016 for $19.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller as previous: sold 12/22/2016 for $6.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller as previous: sold 01/11/2017 for $5.70 by happyhong168
Apparently these sellers may have ran out of their stock of these clear glasses, though I’ve checked on Ebay for several months now (05/2017), there are no longer at least a pair being auctioned off every week like before, though sunglasses are still being sold by the same sellers. The sunglasses might have been a prerequisite for any opium smoker, and thus were confiscated in greater numbers? We don’t really know and can only speculate. Another possibility is that maybe less pairs of the clear ones were sold to begin with, so there were just fewer out there that were subsequently confiscated by the government and then sold.
- See this auction: sold 04/13/2016 for $19.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 04/23/2016 for $19.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 05/04/2016 for $2.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 07/02/2016 for $19.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 07/10/2016 for $17.38 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 07/18/2016 for $24.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 07/27/2016 for $17.05 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 08/08/2016 for $18.05 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 08/17/2016 for $19.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 08/27/2016 for $19.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 09/07/2016 for $24.55 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 09/16/2016 for $19.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 10/05/2016 for $19.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 10/15/2016 for $6.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 10/29/2016 for $19.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 11/20/2016 for $1.33 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 12/04/2016 for $2.25 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 02/15/207 for $5.83 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 02/24/2017 for $7.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 03/15/2017 for $7.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 03/26/2017 for $4.26 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 05/01/2017 for $8.36 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 05/09/2017 for $19.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 05/22/2017 for $5.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 07/02/2017 for $8.39 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 07/16/2017 for $20.01 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: ended 07/28/2017 for $2.36 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 08/27/2017 for $3.25 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller: sold 09/04/2017 for $8.50 by happyhong168
- Another auction, same photo, same seller by happyhong168
- Another auction, different photo, different seller: sold 05/04/2016 for $30.00 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous: sold 06/06/2016 for $17.50 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous: sold 06/16/2016 for $3.45 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous: sold 09/04/2016 for $22.05 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous: sold 09/22/2016 for $4.92 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous: sold 09/29/2016 for $26.99 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous: sold 10/18/2016 for $14.50 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous: sold 10/25/2016 for $27.99 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous: sold 11/02/2016 for $7.50 by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, same photo, same seller as previous: sold 01/10/2017 for $23.50 by guwanshop1024
- Buy It Now page, same photo, same seller as previous ($30.99- 6 available, 4 sold 02/2017) by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous by guwanshop1024
- Another auction, different photo, different seller: no sale 09/22/2016 at $32.99 minimum by longfengchengxiang_688
- Another auction, different photo, different seller: sold 03/12/2017 for $25.49 by baixue20140709
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous: sold 03/31/2017 for $2.25 by baixue20140709
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous: sold 07/10/2017 for $3.25 by baixue20140709
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous: sold 07/19/2017 for $2.25 by baixue20140709
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous by baixue20140709
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous by baixue20140709
- Another auction, different photo, different seller: sold 04/06/2017 for $6.50 by gongxfaxai
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous: sold 07/11/2017 for $19.50 by gongxfaxai
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous: sold 07/25/2017 for $5.50 by gongxfaxai
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous: sold 08/05/2017 for $0.58 by gongxfaxai
- Another auction, different photo, same seller as previous by gongxfaxai
- Another auction, different photo, different seller: sold 07/05/2017 for $8.50 by shopping201313
- Buy It Now page, different photo, different seller ($31.99- 1 available, 4 sold 4/2016; 1 available, 8 sold 09/2016): listing ended 12/24/2016 with 8 total sold by jingyijun_45680
- Another Buy It Now page, different photo, same seller as previous (was $31.99- price reduced to $24.99 by 07/2017) by jingyijun_45680
- Another Buy It Now page, different photo, different seller ($20.00- 2 available, 4 sold 09/2016; ” 12/2016): listing ended 0127/2017 with 5 total sold by sunbin.358
- Another Buy It Now page, different photo, same seller as previous ($30.99) by sunbin.358
- Another Buy It Now page, different photo, different seller ($20.00- 5 available, 4 sold 4/2016; same, 09/2016): no longer a registered Ebay user by 07/2017 by yanggangtt
- Another Buy It Now page, different photo, different seller ($29.99- 1 available, 3 sold 4/2016; 1 available, 4 sold 09/2016): listing ended 02/11/2017 with 6 total sold by collectibles-china
- Another Buy It Now page, different photo, different seller ($31.98) by licong7214
- Another Buy It Now page, different photo, same seller as previous ($31.98- 2 available 02/2017) by licong7214
- Another Buy It Now page, different photo, different seller ($29.99-2 available 02/2017) by chuangduicongtan-7
- Another Buy It Now page, different photo, different seller ($28.99- 2 available 02/2017) by 5_84443