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birkenau
Survivor: David Wiener
Jane Ulman
April 27, 2016
David Wiener was standing on the corner outside his family’s apartment house in Lodz at sundown on Nov. 15, 1939, when German trucks abruptly swarmed the Altshtot (Old Town) synagogue across the street.
Survivor: Henry Oster
Jane Ulman
December 17, 2014
“Achtung,” a German officer shouted. “Attention.” Fifteen-year-old Henry Oster, then called Heinz, lined up with his mother in a Lodz ghetto courtyard on a mid-August day in 1944.
SCI-Arc exhibit reconsiders a future for Auschwitz
Avishay Artsy
November 5, 2014
The word Auschwitz connotes more than just the concentration camp in Poland that carries the name.
Survivor: Stella Esformes
Jane Ulman
September 23, 2014
It was 1944, and Stella Esformes — then Sterina Haleoua — was looking forward to watching the national Independence Day parade in Larissa, Greece.
Palestinian students say Auschwitz trip was ‘for educational purposes only’
Jewish Journal
April 28, 2014
Despite the frequency with which students from high schools and colleges worldwide visit Holocaust death camps, it was no simple matter for Issa Jameel when he was asked whether he wanted to visit Auschwitz.
Survivor: Betty Cohen
Jane Ulman
January 29, 2014
During her first night in Birkenau, on May 22, 1944, Betty Cohen — née Beppe (Rebecca) Corper — slid out of her lower bunk and stepped outside to use the toilet.
Yom HaShoah: An eternal nation, bound together by our faith
Jewish Journal
April 8, 2013
A few months after my bar mitzvah, my father disappeared. We didn’t know what had happened to him.
Record numbers visit Auschwitz
Jewish Journal
January 13, 2011
The Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp attracted a record number of visitors in 2010. Some 1.38 million people visited the site in southern Poland, up from 1.3 million in 2009, the Auschwitz memorial museum announced Wednesday. More than a half-million Poles visited the site, as well as 84,000 British citizens, 74,000 Italians, 68,000 Germans and 63,000 French nationals, according to a statement released by the museum. About 59,000 Israeli visitors came to the site.
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