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Holocaust survivor shares story on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation
It is estimated more than 17 million people total were killed in the Holocaust. “The entry gate in Auschwitz is notorious because it had that ironic symbol above it,” said Manfred Goldberg ...
Israeli student arrested for Nazi salute at Auschwitz during school trip
"We were at the entrance to Auschwitz, and a girl from our grade was taking a picture of the gate—because everyone does that ...
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Lessons of the Holocaust
"The gates at the entry to Auschwitz had the words Arbeit Macht Frei written over them. It translates as ‘Work makes you free.’ It was a horribly ironic statement. It was cruel." Melvin Jules ...
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Auschwitz Museum confiscates hostage flags claiming its a 'political statement'
“It is really bad in this day and age.” A sign being held at Begin Gate in Tel Aviv, reminiscent of the sign over the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp, reading “Until the last ...
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Holocaust survivor, 95, reveals one thing that kept her alive through horrors of Auschwitz
A stranger’s kindness and pure luck saved Mindu Hornick’s life when she walked through the gates of Auschwitz. Article continues below Surviving Auschwitz and Neuengamme slave labour camp ...
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Just 50 Holocaust survivors will be at Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of its liberation
A heated tent has been set up for participants around the infamous gate to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where, historians say, of the estimated 1.3 million people deported to the camp in Nazi-occupied ...
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Brazil’s president criticized for coronavirus motto that recalls ‘Arbeit macht frei,’ the infamous Auschwitz gate sign
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is being criticized for a new slogan about combating the coronavirus which resembles the infamous Nazi inscription at the entrance to ...