Auschwitz Poland Museum

SC ceremony honors 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation

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, only 7,000 were saved.

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Silence pervades Auschwitz on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the camp’s liberation

Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today. Sometimes the only sounds are the soft footsteps of visitors, people who come from all over the world to mourn and to learn, and the voices of their guides speaking in hushed tones into microphones trying to explain the ungraspable.

Newsweek on MSN · 3d

Survivors Mark Auschwitz 80th Liberation Anniversary

The ceremony is widely regarded as the last major observance likely to see a significant number of survivors in attendance.

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Auschwitz commander's home open to the public, converted into center for Holocaust history

KCRA Documentary screens at University of Arkansas The home is the former residence of the commander of the ...

The Forward on MSN3d

The only Jew in Oświęcim, Poland, can see Auschwitz from her bedroom window

A parade of dignitaries and dozens of Holocaust survivors came to Oświęcim on Monday to pay tribute to the 1 million Jews who ...

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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 ...

At Auschwitz, a Solemn Ceremony at a Time of Rising Nationalism

World leaders and a dwindling group of survivors joined in a ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the ...

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