A photographer walked the railroad tracks that led to Auschwitz and saw the ‘darkness of the past’
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Oded Balilty started with the AP as a freelancer in Jerusalem in ...
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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Inside Nazi house of horrors where Auschwitz’s commandant lived near mass killings
This seemingly ordinary house next door serves as a chilling reminder of "just how close heaven can be to hell on earth." ...
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Auschwitz commander's home open to the public, converted into center for Holocaust history
In the outskirts of the city of Oświęcim, Poland, lies a home, adjacent to the site of one of the worst atrocities ever committed. The home is the former residence of the commander of the ...
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 ...
'It was an escape into excellence': How music saved the life of a teenage Jewish cellist in Auschwitz
After being sent to the Nazi death camp in 1943, Anita Lasker survived by playing in its women's orchestra. In 1996, she ...
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Holocaust survivors share why gathering at Auschwitz 80 years after its liberation is crucial to history
IT IS THE STORY OF THE BUSH SISTERS ANDRE AND TATIANA BUSH WERE JUST FOUR AND SIX WHEN THEY WERE DEPORTED FROM ITALY TO THE AUSCHWITZ CONCENTRATION CAMP, AND ANDRE LIVES IN SACRAMENTO NOW.
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Auschwitz survivors the focus of ceremony to mark 80 years since camp's liberation, Holocaust Remembrance Day
Oswiecim, Poland — A memorial service to mark 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops was held Monday at the site of the former death camp, a ceremony that was widely treated ...
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Photos show the horrors of Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration camp, 80 years after its liberation
Shortly after construction, Auschwitz-Birkenau became the largest killing center and central location for the extermination of Jews in Europe. In 1942, two farmhouses just outside the camp were ...