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 ...
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'My family was murdered at Auschwitz. Her grandfather drove trains to the camp'
"Give me your hand," Cornelia says, also welling up. "It's important. Your tears, and my touch, are touching me… My ...
Auschwitz was an 'industrial apparatus to kill people'
Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi German extermination camp during the Nazi era. At least 1.1 million people were ...
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The Liberation of Auschwitz—Where More Than One Million Jews Were Killed—Took Place on This Day in 1945
When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the ...
The very worst thing about Auschwitz
My father had entered Auschwitz the previous spring, together with his parents, his two brothers, and two of his three ...
Auschwitz liberation at 80: Survivors, world leaders mark milestone
A survivor brings a candle to the Death Wall at the Auschwitz-Birkenau former Nazi German concentration and extermination ...
Auschwitz survivors the focus of ceremony to mark 80 years since camp's liberation, Holocaust Remembrance Day
Survivors of the Nazi's notorious Auschwitz death camp are taking center stage at the memorial service to mark 80 years since ...
‘My father was the Tattooist of Auschwitz – it took me five attempts to visit his prison home’
After 40 years of trying, Gary Sokolov finally saw the death camp where his parents met – he felt terror but also a sense of ...
Holocaust survivors mark 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
Some of the last living survivors spoke of worrying signs that safeguards of “never again” are falling away while ...
The Last Musician of Auschwitz, review: this breathtaking documentary will stay with you forever
The Last Musician of Auschwitz (BBC Two) found a way that was so stunning and so profound that once you have watched it, you ...