Oswiecim, a small Polish town of around 10,000 inhabitants, was occupied by the German Wehrmacht in 1939, annexed and renamed Auschwitz. In 1941, the Nazis established the largest German extermination camp in this area, the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. By the end of January 1945, the Nazis had murdered at least 1.1 million people at Auschwitz.
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The smiling face of President Alexander Lukashenko gazed out from campaign posters across Belarus on Sunday as the country held an orchestrated election virtually guaranteed to give the 70-year-old autocrat yet another term on top of his three decades in power. “Needed!” the posters proclaim beneath a photo of Lukashenko, his hands clasped together. The
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‘It really did something to your soul,’ says Holocaust survivor published at 21:02 Greenwich Mean Time Katya Adler and Kathy Long Reporting from Auschwitz One of the survivors who attended today’s commemorations is Mala Tribich, now in her 90s, who was nine when she was forced into a Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland. She was
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