Elke Ahlswede
By Elke Ahlswede
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Fast Forward 94-Year-Old Auschwitz Survivor Testifies That Visible Ribs Were Death Sentence
Three survivors spoke on Friday of the smell of burnt bodies and piles of the dead at Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz death camp, one of whose former guards stands accused of helping in the murder of at least 170,000 people. “If your ribs were visible, you were a candidate for the crematorium,” said Leon Schwarzbaum, a…
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Fast Forward Brave Auschwitz Survivor Confronts Guard: ‘We’ll Both Face Highest Judge’
A 94-year-old survivor of Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz death camp gave his testimony in court on Thursday, face to face with a former guard, who is charged with helping in the murder of at least 170,000 people. Leon Schwarzbaum, who lost 35 family members during the Holocaust, calmly recalled the camp’s horrors and when he had…
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