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The liberation of Auschwitz: 80 years on
The largest camp in the entire system of Nazi concentration and extermination camps, where more than 1 million people ...
'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 a ...
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Hungarian Auschwitz survivor says world has not learned lesson
BUDAPEST (Reuters) - When Agnes Darvas was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz in 1944 ... a quarry with a pickaxe as heavy as she was and then moved on to another concentration camp, Mauthausen. By ...
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Hungarian Jews remember Holocaust tragedy 80 years after liberation of Auschwitz
As the world observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday, 80 years after the Nazis' most notorious death camp at Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Red Army on Jan. 27, 1945 ...
Holocaust survivors recall horrors of Auschwitz as Prince William and Kate attend London memorial
On the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, 98-year-old survivor Marian Turski addresses the commemoration in Poland.
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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 ...
‘Nothing will be easy about returning:’ Survivors mark 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
World leaders will be in Poland Monday to mark Holocaust Memorial Day and the 80thanniversary of the liberation of Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
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Hungarian Jews remember Holocaust tragedy 80 years after liberation of Auschwitz
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, in which nearly half a million Hungarian Jews lost their lives at the hands of the Nazis ...