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Auschwitz's Death Wall: How the Nazis shot thousands of inmates in front of structure - before Polish Pope John Paul II knelt in the same spot and prayed for peace

It was a truly powerful sight: the Polish pope who had grown up under Nazi occupation kneeling in prayer at Auschwitz's Death Wall. Above: The wall today and John Paul II in 1979.

Returning to Hell so its evil can never be forgotten: Holocaust survivors and their families visit Auschwitz to mark 80th anniversary of its liberation

Nazi German forces murdered some 1.1 million people at the notorious site in southern Poland, which was under German occupation during World War II before being liberated by Soviet troops.

I was smuggled out of a Nazi prison at two years old before my mother was deported to Auschwitz - I didn't find out I was Jewish until I was a teenager

Smuggled out of a Nazi prison in France as a two-month-old baby, Annick Lever, 81, narrowly avoided being deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp with her mother and maternal grandparents.

Among monarchs and presidents, focus of Auschwitz anniversary is on 50 survivors

Former inmates of Nazi concentration camp in Poland will speak at ceremony marking 80 years since its liberation

Kings and queens, presidents, prime ministers and dignitaries from 54 countries will as…

The town that turned into Hell: 80 years after the death camp was liberated, then-and-now pictures reveal how life has changed in the Polish town the Nazis transformed... into Auschwitz

With a history dating back to the 12th century, today the local council describes it as 'a city of peace'. But for the rest of the world, the town is known for one thing - the Nazi death camp Auschwi…

'Now I know why I survived...': Holocaust survivor, 92, whose parents and seven siblings were murdered in Nazi death camps is left overwhelmed as his harrowing tale of survival as 12-year-old in Auschwitz is made into a tear-jerking animated movie

Animator Zoom Rockman, who has adapted the Holocaust memoir of survivor Ivor Perl, ensured all location, events and even faces featuring in the the poignant film were based on real-life.

The Guardian view on commemorating Auschwitz’s liberation: the urgency of Holocaust remembrance | Editorial

Eighty years after the Nazi death camp was freed, the testimony of survivors is as crucial as ever

Memory is fragile. A decade ago, 300 survivors gathered at Auschwitz to commemorate the Nazi death ca…

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