Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor Teresa Regula, 96, a retired sociologist, holds a picture of her father, Jan Regula, ahead of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz, in Krakow, Poland. (Reuters) Source link
OSWIECIM, Poland: The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the site of the former death camp, a ceremony that is widely being treated as the last major observance that any notable number of survivors will be able to attend. Among those who traveled to the…
More than 50 world leaders, including King Charles III, will join a dwindling group of Nazi death camp survivors on Monday in southern Poland to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Red Army’s liberation of Auschwitz, where more than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered. A day of solemn ceremony, shadowed by a resurgence…
The mother lived for 42 years in a three-story house overlooking a former gas chamber and a gallows at Auschwitz, sometimes losing sleep at the thought of what had happened on the other side of her garden wall. But the house in Oswiecim, southern Poland, once the home of the death camp’s wartime commandant, Rudolf…