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 ...
Photos show the horrors of Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration camp, 80 years after its liberation
Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly a million Jews. On the day of liberation 80 years ago, ...
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Boca man set out to publish uncle’s Holocaust memoir — it landed on NY Times list
The memoir’s title is unsettling: “Cold Crematorium: Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz.” What’s a cold crematorium? It’s what concentration camp prisoners cynically named the barracks ...
The very worst thing about Auschwitz
My father had entered Auschwitz the previous spring, together with his parents, his two brothers, and two of his three ...
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‘Hell on Earth’: Who were the victims killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz?
It functioned as the largest extermination and forced labour camp in the Nazi system, equipped with gas chambers and crematoria. Along with Einsatzgruppen paramilitary death squads, Auschwitz was ...
Pittsburgh families tell survivors' stories from Auschwitz 80 years later on Holocaust Remembrance Day
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the families of two survivors who resettled in Pittsburgh shared their stories.
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Survivors return as world remembers Auschwitz 80 years after liberation
By the end of 1942 there were four separate gas chambers and crematoria. Image caption, Some of the blocks for the Nazis' prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau are still intact The first mass ...
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Pittsburgh families tell survivors' stories from Auschwitz 80 years later on Holocaust Remembrance Day
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Eighty years ago on Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz and uncovered ... he pointed to the billowing smoke from the crematorium, that's where your father ...
Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
The main observances take place at the site in southern Poland where Nazi Germany murdered over a million people ...
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The Polish town standing in Auschwitz’s shadow strains between its fraught history and its future
More than a million people died at Auschwitz-Birkenau ... the sounds of prisoners screaming and the smell of a nearby crematorium, said Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director of the Counter ...
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The Million-Body Problem
Its architect was Karl Bischoff, who designed Auschwitz by working backward from his estimate of the maximum incineration capacity at the crematoria: Bischoff’s figure of 4,756 bodies in a 24 ...