Wiktor Szary and Wojciech Zurawski
By Wiktor Szary and Wojciech Zurawski
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Fast Forward World Leaders Join Auschwitz Survivors at 70th Anniversary of Liberation
(Reuters) — World leaders joined around 300 Auschwitz survivors at the site of the former Nazi death camp on Tuesday to mark 70 years since its liberation by Soviet troops, an anniversary held in the shadow of war in Ukraine and a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe. Tuesday’s gathering in southern Poland marks perhaps the…
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Fast Forward World Readies for Auschwitz Anniversary Without Russia’s Vladimir Putin
(Reuters) — Russia’s Vladimir Putin will be absent from the main event marking 70 years since Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, held against a backdrop of hostilities in Ukraine and warnings of a rise in anti-Semitism in Europe. The commemoration on Tuesday at the site in southern Poland where the Nazis…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Town Haunted by Death, Even 70 Years Later
(Reuters) — Bogumila recalls how as a small girl growing up in the Polish town of Oswiecim she saw prisoners beaten by Nazi guards and watched with her mother the distant glow of the crematorium fires of the Auschwitz concentration camp. “Everyone sat in their homes in silence, windows shut as tightly as possible,” she…
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