'My family was murdered at Auschwitz. Her grandfather drove trains to the camp'
I never got to meet my grandfather Ludvig, who survived the Holocaust, or his mother Rachel. They were put onto a cattle cart ...
Emaciated hostages show we need a ‘bomb the rails to Auschwitz’ plan
It’s 2025, and the world just witnessed the mini-liberation of a concentration camp. Three Israeli hostages were freed in ...
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 ...
The Sun19d
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 old ...
‘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 gratitude ...
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Auschwitz survivors the focus of ceremony to mark 80 years since camp's liberation, Holocaust Remembrance Day
Auschwitz quickly became a potent symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust. Its notorious "selection process" for prisoners arriving at the camp's train platform determined life or death in mere ...
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Holocaust survivors mark 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
The leaders lined up to light candles in a symbolically empty train car. Tova Friedman, 86, recalled traveling to Auschwitz-Birkenau in a similar car. “I held on tightly to my mother’s hand in ...
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‘Nothing will be easy about returning:’ Survivors mark 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
The train car is dedicated to the memory of the approximately 420,000 Hungarian Jews who were deported to Auschwitz. The United Nations declared January 27 as the International Holocaust Memorial ...