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From Auschwitz to Gaza: The unfolding horror and its implications
In late February 1945, among the first reports on the horrors of Auschwitz was one by a Polish officer, Lt. Wacław Lipiński, ...
My dad survived Auschwitz by boxing and winning 76 forced fights to the death before pro career and Rocky Marciano bout
IN 1944, aged just 16, Harry Haft was forced into a concentration camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. To survive the Holocaust, the teenager was told to, literally, fight for his life. For the ...
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN19d
The Liberation of Auschwitz—Where More Than One Million Jews Were Killed—Took Place on This Day in 1945
When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the soldiers encountered unimaginable horrors, including mass graves, the smoldering ...
Auschwitz survivor returns to brave a harrowing past
This is Auschwitz-Birkenau, a place where the Nazis treated people like animals caged in by electrified barbed wire, where ...
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A Greek Jew’s Daughter and the Rare Auschwitz Survival Story
Nina Angelo wants her Greek Jew father's story as an Auschwitz-Birkenau prisoner to be remembered through her book "Don't Cry ...
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Survivors return as world remembers Auschwitz 80 years after liberation
About 50 survivors of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau will return to the site on Monday to remember the day it was ...
Daily Express13d
Auschwitz survivor insisted daughter learnt to play violin for one heartbreaking reason
One Auschwitz survivor insisted her daughter learnt how to play violin for one important reason, according to a British composer. Ahead of the 8th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz ...
Auschwitz Survivors Mark 80th Anniversary of Liberation From Nazi Death Camp
In all, the Nazi regime murdered 6 million Jews from all over Europe, annihilating two-thirds of Europe’s Jews and one-third of all Jews worldwide. In 2005, the United Nations designated Jan. 27 as ...
Anti-extremism center opens in former house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss
A U.S.-based organization is transforming the house of Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss into a research center devoted to fighting extremism ...
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Auschwitz survivors and world leaders mark 80 years since Nazi death camp's liberation
Inside the Auschwitz concentration camp complex, the soldiers liberated roughly 7,000 prisoners who had been brutalized by a Nazi regime hell-bent on exterminating the Jewish people. The horrors ...
Mindu Hornick: Interview with an Auschwitz survivor
January 27, 2025 23 minutes Available for over a year "We thought we had entered hell." These are the recollections of Auschwitz survivor Mindu Hornick. In an interview with the BBC's Tim Franks, she ...
Memorializing the Holocaust Needs to Go Beyond Auschwitz
That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public exclusion to eventual internment to finally extermination. Millions of ...