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Auschwitz

[oush-vits] / ˈaʊʃ vɪts /


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Her grandson, Aron Goodman, said their most-viewed videos are “ones that show her number” — the identification tattooed on prisoners’ arms at Auschwitz.

From Seattle Times

Some marchers held a banner reading “Thessalonki Auschwitz 80 years: Never again” and white balloons carrying the same slogan were released.

From Seattle Times

Holocaust Memorial Museum, approximately 77,000 Jews living in French territory were killed in the camps, primarily Auschwitz.

From Washington Post

The forged documents allowed Jewish children, their parents and others to escape deportation to Auschwitz and other concentration camps, and in many cases to flee Nazi-occupied territory for safe havens.

From New York Times

Impostors have repeatedly claimed to be Holocaust survivors; Binjamin Wilkomirski published a critically acclaimed 1995 “memoir” of childhood in Auschwitz, even though, as it later emerged, he spent World War II in neutral Switzerland.

From Washington Post