Auschwitz

‘Great love’ led to daring Auschwitz escape (AP)

July 20th, 2010

AP - With every step toward the gate, Jerzy Bielecki was certain he would be shot.

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Former inmate recalls daring escape from Auschwitz (AP)

July 20th, 2010

**WITH STORY BY MONIKA SCISLOWSKA POLAND ESCAPE FROM AUSCHWITZ** In this May 11, 2010 photo Jerzy Bielecki is seen presenting photos of him in 1944, left, and Cyla in 1945, in his home in Nowy Targ, southern Poland. 60 years ago Bielecki, then an Auschwitz Birkenau prisoner, escaped from the death camp with his Jewish girlfriend, Cyla Cybulska. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)AP - With every step toward the gate, Jerzy Bielecki was certain he would be shot.


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Dancing, laughing at Auschwitz: who has the right? (AP)

July 17th, 2010

Holocaust survivor Adolek Kohn stands with his grandchildren at the entrance gate to the Auschwitz death camp in Poland in this undated image, taken during the making of a clip in which he is dancing with his family on what easily could have been his own grave. The 4 1/2-minute clip of Adolek Kohn and his loved ones stiffly shuffling and shimmying to the disco hit, 'I Will Survive,' at Auschwitz and other places where millions died during the Holocaust has become a surprise hit on YouTube, sparking a fierce debate over whether it disrespects those who perished or is an exuberant celebration of life.(AP Photo/Jane Korman)AP - Who has the right to dance at Auschwitz, to make light of the Holocaust, to shoot videos set amid cattle cars and gas chambers?


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Floods worsen in central Europe, Auschwitz closed (AP)

May 18th, 2010

AP - Flooding in southern Poland has killed at least five people, and officials closed the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial site on Tuesday to protect its Holocaust archives and artifacts.

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Documents of Auschwitz death camp doctors found (AP)

March 22nd, 2010

FILE - In this file photo of Wednesday April 22, 1998, young Israelis walk under the sign at Auschwitz concentration camp reading 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' (Work sets you free) during a tour of the site. A Polish court on Thursday, March 18, 2010 convicted three men of the theft of the notorious 'Arbeit Macht Frei' (Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial site in December. The men, two of whom are brothers, were given prison sentences ranging from 18 months to 2½ years. (AP Photo/Jockel Finck, File)AP - Food coupons for some of the notorious Nazi doctors at the Auschwitz death camp — including perhaps the sadistic Dr. Joseph Mengele — have been found in the…

Poland convicts 3 men in theft of Auschwitz sign (AP)

March 18th, 2010

People walk through the gate, with the words AP - A Polish court on Thursday convicted three men of the theft of the notorious “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial site in…

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