Auschwitz survivors lay candles and wreaths as world remembers camp's liberation 80 years on
About 50 survivors are joining King Charles and world leaders for commemorations including a service and speeches.
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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 perished at the hands of Hitler’s regime, has become one of the best-known symbols of the Holocaust.
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80 years after liberation: In conversation with a Montrealer who survived Auschwitz
January 27th marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp and the International Day of Commemoration of the Victims of the Holocaust.
I was minutes away from being executed at Auschwitz – then stroke of luck saved my life, says Holocaust survivor
A HOLOCAUST survivor has revealed she was minutes away from being sent to her death at Auschwitz – before her train was diverted in a lucky twist of fate. Agnes Kaposi, 92, was just 11 years
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 the south of occupied Poland near the town of Oswiecim. Auschwitz was at the centre of the Nazi campaign to eradicate Europe's Jewish population, and almost one million of those who died there were Jews.
Auschwitz was an 'industrial apparatus to kill people'
Most of them were Jews, but countless thousands were Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities, homosexuals, politicial prisoners, and members of other minority groups. "The site was chosen because of its central location in Europe,
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 choice of residence, given the most famous feature of the town is its proximity to the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz – where at least 1.
Hungarian Auschwitz survivor says world has not learned lesson
When Agnes Darvas was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz in 1944, she escaped being sent straight to the gas chambers with other children largely because her coat had been stolen in the ghetto and her mother had cut off her braids for fear of lice.
House next to Auschwitz opens to public amid alarming international survey results on Holocaust
The family home next to Auschwitz – immortalized on screen in last year’s Oscar-winning film ‘The Zone of Interest’ - is opening its doors to the public for the first time. This coincides with an alarming international survey examining Holocaust knowledge and awareness.
Holocaust survivors recall horrors of Auschwitz as Prince William and Kate attend London memorial
On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, survivor Tova Friedman says she thought she was the "only Jewish child in the world".
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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 million were killed at Auschwitz,
'If you lost weight, you were sent to the gas chamber': Auschwitz ordeal of 13-year-old girl separated from her family
An Auschwitz survivor who was just 13 when she arrived at the concentration camp says the recent rise in antisemitism is driven by "ignorance". Separated from her mother as she passed through the gates,