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In the shadow of Auschwitz, a museum commemorates an ancient Polish Jewish community
Before the Nazis chose Oswiciem as the site of the infamous death camp, Jews thrived in the city for half a millennium. Now, ...
The Polish town standing in Auschwitz’s shadow strains between its fraught history and its future
Oswiecim has more than eight centuries of history, and some are growing resentful that the world knows little about them ...
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 ...
History Extra6d
The liberation of Auschwitz: 80 years on
The largest camp in the entire system of Nazi concentration and extermination camps, where more than 1 million people ...
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Auschwitz survivors attend Holocaust Remembrance Day in Poland
Holocaust survivors gathered Monday, Jan. 27, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau in ...
Yad Vashem exhibit and street naming highlight NYC’s commitment to remember the Holocaust
Three paintings and sketches are part of an exhibit titled “Anguish of Liberation as Reflected in Art,” curated by Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, and features 11 works created ...
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Marek: The daughter of Auschwitz
Tova’s mother, knowing the probable fate for her daughter, hid Tova literally under a corpse in one of the rooms. She then ...
Dark tourism: 9 eye-opening locations with tragic histories
Some tourists choose to visit sites where tragedies have occurred such as Chernobyl, Hiroshima and the killing fields in ...