Oświęcim’s sole Jewish resident reflects on modern antisemitism on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz camp’s liberation
Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting ...
Leaders to listen to Auschwitz survivors at 80th anniversary of camp's liberation
By Barbara Erling and Kuba Stezycki OSWIECIM, Poland (Reuters) -Auschwitz survivors were being joined by world leaders on ...
Politicians to hear Auschwitz survivors at 80th anniversary of camp's liberation
Auschwitz survivors were being joined by world leaders on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi ...
Auschwitz: How death camp became centre of Nazi Holocaust
In just over four-and-a-half years, Nazi Germany systematically murdered at least 1.1 million people at Auschwitz, built in ...
‘Nothing will be easy about returning:’ Survivors mark 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return ...
Auschwitz survivors to mark 80th anniversary of camp’s liberation
Last milestone anniversary’ will see political leaders listening to survivors’ voices rather than making speeches ...
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'If you lost weight, you were sent to the gas chamber': Auschwitz ordeal of 13-year-old girl separated from her family
Image: Prisoners from Hungary arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp in spring 1945. Pic: AP/DPA Image: The railway leading to the concentration camp. Pic: AP "You don't think that you live in ...
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House next to Auschwitz opens to public amid alarming international survey results on Holocaust
The house where German SS officer and commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp Rudolf Höss lived ... Germany, Poland and Hungary – and while overall awareness about the Holocaust is ...
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‘Nothing will be easy about returning:’ Survivors mark 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
Approximately 1.1 million people were murdered at the concentration camp from 1940 to ... of the approximately 420,000 Hungarian Jews who were deported to Auschwitz. The United Nations declared ...
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Museum works to preserve shoes belonging to Auschwitz’s youngest victims
On the 80th anniversary of its liberation, survivors of the Holocaust gathered at the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Of the more than six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, 1.1 ...