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Released hostage Agam Berger to deliver violin performance at Auschwitz • Apr. 16, 2025, 6:25 AM ET (Jerusalem Post)
80 years after Auschwitz, kosher food will be sold in its town of Oświęcim • Apr. 4, 2025, 9:56 AM ET (Jerusalem Post)

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Also Known As Oświęcim • Auschwitz-Birkenau • Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Nazi German Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940–-1945) • Birkenau
Date 1940 - 1945

Did You Know?

  • In 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz revolted, using smuggled gunpowder to set the crematorium on fire.
  • Polish officer Witold Pilecki was voluntarily imprisoned at Auschwitz to gather intel.
  • The number of deaths at Auschwitz exceeds the combined American and British death toll in World War II.

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Edith Stein
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Viktor Frankl
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St. Maksymilian Maria Kolbe
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Josef Mengele
Josef Mengele
German physician
Erich Salomon
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Primo Levi
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Tadeusz Borowski
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