A photographer walked the railroad tracks that led to Auschwitz and saw the ‘darkness of the past’
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Oded Balilty started with the AP as a freelancer in Jerusalem in ...
The rail tracks of Auschwitz still cross the area as aging reminders of horror
During World War II, men, women and children were transported from across Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau, horrendous journeys in which they were packed into cramped cattle cars.
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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 ...
Baruch Borenstein, 83, was saved from being sent to Auschwitz while on the train from Belgium to Poland
While en route to the death camp, a German Gestapo officer thought Mr Borenstein reminded him of his own baby, and ordered him and his mother off the train in secret at Liege.
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Australian shares Auschwitz survival story as world marks 80th anniversary
At the end of the ceremony survivors and world leaders lit candles at the empty wooden train car, which sits on the tracks at Auschwitz — a car that carried people to the camps and to their deaths.
‘I’d rather shake hands with an SS officer than a Holocaust denier’
It’s now been 80 years since Auschwitz was liberated and the true horror of what took place inside the camp’s walls was revealed to the world.