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Auschwitz 70th anniversary: Memories produce warnings for a modern world

Auschwitz’s last survivors urged the world not to forget the horrors of the Holocaust as they marked the 70th anniversary of the Nazi death camp’s

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Auschwitz survivors 70 years on plead for 'our children's future'

At the Gate of Death, survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau have marked 70 years since their liberation from the Nazi German extermination camp in Poland

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Auschwitz liberation a Soviet pause in sweep to crush Hitler

When he was 21, Ivan Martynushkin was a lieutenant in the Soviet Red Army, commanding a machine-gun unit. By the start of 1945 they had walked

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Holocaust survivors tell the world what happened in Auschwitz

Survivors of the Holocaust visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz on Monday (January 26), one day ahead of ceremonies marking the 70th

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Auschwitz prisoner's tattoo like a tomb stone

Auschwitz survivor Elie Buzyn reflects on the marks of inhumanity that untold millions of people suffered from 70 years ago. He eventually settled in

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[As it happened] Remembering the Holocaust at Auschwitz, 70 years on

Germany

Merkel speech opens Auschwitz anniversary events

German Chancellor Angela Merkel addressed an audience gathered in Berlin for an event marking 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, the former

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Holocaust Memorial Day: some key facts and figures

Holocaust facts and figures The Holocaust was the killing of around six million Jewish people by the Nazi regime from 1933 up to the end of the

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Auschwitz and other survivors who were 'freed but never free'

Survivors of Auschwitz Birkenau, the German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp, are fewer every year… fewer to bear witness to what was done

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Poland snubs Putin over Auschwitz anniversary

Russian President Vladimir Putin is not expected to attend Holocaust commemorations in Poland later this month as he apparently hasn’t been invited

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Woman in Black 2: a chilling sequel

‘Woman in Black: Angel of Death’ tells the story of a group of orphaned children forced to leave World War II London during the Blitz and move to the

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Cameron honours victims at Auschwitz death camp

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"Unbroken": a story of survival and forgiveness

United Kingdom

Gallery: See the stunning poppy tribute to mark WW1 centenary

USA

WWII Nazi U-boat wreck found on bottom of the Atlantic ocean

USA

Last U.S. crew member of Hiroshima bomber dies

World

D-Day: 'We are all 70'

France

D-Day: 89-year-old veteran repeats parachute jump into Normandy

France

D-Day 70th anniversary as it happened