Why here? Why Auschwitz? "The site was chosen because of its central location in Europe, where it was easy to reach by train. There were also logistical considerations," Christoph Heubner ...

Behind them, men in prisoner uniforms pushed a float shaped like a giant train with musicians ... a float shaped like the gate to the Nazi Auschwitz death camp in Poland. A video of the event ...

The 1600 Jews who had left on the Kasztner train in June represented less than half of 1% of the Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz. The Spring and early Summer of 1944 was to be the most ...

(JTA) — Virtual memorial plaques were projected on to the “Arbeit Macht Frei” gates at Auschwitz-Birkenau in ... the former concentration camp’s train tracks. The plaques illuminated ...

Auschwitz survivor on his story of escape from the train of death Sky’s Europe correspondent, Siobhan Robbins, spoke to Simon Gronowski, a man who survived the Holocaust by jumping from a train ...

Afterwards we dressed up and returned to our train.” – Eva Speter, Hungarian Jewish prisoner allowed to travel to neutral Switzerland "Auschwitz Protocols" included maps showing location of ...

I can offer no groundbreaking insight, but clearly Auschwitz is a place that opens up a well of emotions. To witness the barbed wire, the watchtowers, the barracks, the train tracks and the ...