'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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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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‘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 ...
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Auschwitz survivors recall suffering 80 years after camp's liberation
Janina, transported to Auschwitz from Warsaw in a freight train, recalled stepping out to the smell of burning bodies. In the camp, she cared for children in the block she lived in, earning ...