Auschwitz survivor returns to brave a harrowing past
This is Auschwitz-Birkenau, a place where the Nazis treated people like animals caged in by electrified barbed wire, where ...
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 ...
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 ...
Auschwitz survivor insisted daughter learnt to play violin for one heartbreaking reason
EXCLUSIVE: After the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, composer Leo Geyer received support from holocaust survivors online.
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Auschwitz survivors fear rising hate could bring on another Holocaust 80 years later
While the assembled leaders were invited to lay wreaths and candles, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum allowed only the survivors to speak during the ceremony itself. Polish President ...
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Trump failed to help America grieve tragic helicopter-plane collision
In two visits to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland, I noticed that every visitor was hushed, listening to guides and taking in the dreadful history. Visitors to the Dachau ...
Auschwitz commander's home open to the public, converted into center for Holocaust history
The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has ...
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80 years after Auschwitz’s liberation, local residents keep the memory alive
Birkenau's liberation, honoring victims and those who helped prisoners from the three camps once located near Oswiecim town, ...