This is the Forward’s coverage of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp in Poland run by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Ceremony To Mark 71st Anniversary of Camp’s Liberation
WARSAW, Poland — President Andrzej Duda of Poland and Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic of Croatia are expected to attend the ceremony at the Auschwitz memorial marking the 71st anniversary of the concentration camp’s liberation. Dozens of survivors and their relatives will also be on hand for Wednesday’s commemoration. Red Army troops liberated Auschwitz on Jan. 27, 1945…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Guard Will Stand Trial for 3,681 Murders
A 95-year-old former paramedic at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz will go on trial in Germany next month on charges of being an accessory to the murder of at least 3,681 people a German court announced on Monday. Hubert Z., whose last name is being withheld because of Germany’s privacy laws, was a sergeant in…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Memorial Draws Record 1.72M Visitors in 2015
A record number of more than 1.72 million visitors came to the Auschwitz memorial in 2015. The new mark breaks the standard of 1.534 million visitors set last year, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland reported Monday. In 2015, Poland had the most visitors with 425,000. Rounding out the top five were the United…
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Fast Forward 2 Brit Teens Charged in Auschwitz Artifacts Theft
WARSAW, Poland — Two 17-year-old British boys face up to 10 years in prison for stealing items from the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum in Poland. An indictment was filed Tuesday with the Regional Court in Krakow. Museum guards stopped the teenagers in June while they were on a trip with the independent Perse School…
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Fast Forward 95-Year-Old Auschwitz Paramedic Faces Trial for 3,681 Murders
A German court on Tuesday permitted the trial of a 95-year-old German man accused of being an accessory to the murder of at least 3,681 people at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The higher court of Rostock in northern Germany deemed Hubert Z. fit for trial, overruling a previous decision by a lower court that…
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Fast Forward Canadian Candidate Admits Not Knowing What Auschwitz Is
A candidate in Canada’s federal elections has apologized for not knowing that Auschwitz was a Nazi death camp. “Well, I didn’t know what Auschwitz was, or I didn’t up until today,” Alex Johnstone, who is running in the Oct. 19 elections for Parliament in southwestern Ontario for the New Democratic Party, told the Hamilton Spectator…
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Fast Forward Second 93-Year-Old Auschwitz Guard Faces Trial
A German court is waiting for medical clearance before trying a 93-year-old former Auschwitz guard on 170,000 counts of accessory to murder. If Reinhold Hanning is determined mentally competent to stand trial, it will be the second trial this year of an ex-Nazi over the age of 90. Anke Grudda, spokeswoman for the Detmold state…
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Fast Forward Auschwitz Removes Controversial Showers as Temperature Dips
Mist sprinklers installed at the site of the former Nazi concentration camp complex Auschwitz-Birkenau that sparked controversy were removed. Administrators of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum told the Hebrew-language Nana10 website on Wednesday that they were removing the sprinklers, which resemble shower heads, because they were no longer needed following a drop in temperature. Many visitors…
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