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Auschwitz

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Revisited: Ivor Perl and Susan Pollack were 12 and 13 when they were transported to Auschwitz. On the 80th anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation, we revisit a podcast we published markin…

Former inmates and world leaders gather for prayers and reflection amid warnings that ‘age-old hatred’ is on the rise

On a day of startling blue skies, Auschwitz survivors stood before princes and pre…

It was a truly powerful sight: the Polish pope who had grown up under Nazi occupation kneeling in prayer at Auschwitz's Death Wall. Above: The wall today and John Paul II in 1979.
Holocaust survivors have been marking 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz.

In moving speech, Marian Turski warns that current conditions are similar to those which led to the Holocaust

  • ‘I waved at my mother and she waved back. That was the last time we saw her’: three Auschw…
80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation: Remembering the victims and committing to never forget
King Charles III told Holocaust survivors it was 'sombre and sacred' to be in Poland today as he became the first British head of state to visit Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Thousands of prisoners were executed by SS officers outside Block 11 in Auschwitz.
These were the horrific scenes that met the Soviet 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front as they opened the gates of Auschwitz in what had been Nazi-occupied Poland
Nazi German forces murdered some 1.1 million people at the notorious site in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during World War II before being liberated by Soviet troops.

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