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Extraordinary all-female orchestra played for the Nazis at Auschwitz
At the gates of Auschwitz, prisoners were marched to work at 5.30 a.m., and home again in the evening, often carrying the corpses of ...
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Auschwitz was liberated 80 years ago. The spotlight is on survivors as their numbers dwindle
On Jan. 27, 1945, Soviet troops arrived at the gates of the Auschwitz and found some 7,000 weak and emaciated prisoners.
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Auschwitz survivors decry anti-Semitism on 80th anniversary
In total 50 fellow survivors gathered at the main commemoration outside the gates of Auschwitz II-Birkenau, joined by dozens of world leaders. Earlier on Monday, elderly former inmates ...
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Voices of Auschwitz
It started with "Schindler's List," when the Oscar-winning director filmed scenes outside the gates of Auschwitz. Seeing signs of hope amid the hopelessness, he would go on to start a project to ...
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AUSCHWITZ: Inside The Nazi State
Höss even adopted the cynical motto of Dachau concentration camp in Germany—Arbeit Macht Frei—"Work makes you free"—and emblazoned it on the new gates of Auschwitz. The Polish prisoners now ...
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80 years after Auschwitz, kosher food will be sold in its town of Oświęcim
A mile from the concentration camp, visitors will be able to buy packaged, shelf-stable kosher meals for the first time at ...
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AUSCHWITZ: Inside The Nazi State
But it wasn't a joke. It was bizarre - but true. Block 24 just beside the main gate of Auschwitz was to become a brothel. And the decision to make it happen had come from the very top of the SS.