During the Nazi Holocaust, 1.1 million people - most of them Jews - were murdered at Auschwitz.
David Pountney, the director, wisely avoids documentary realism, instead giving the Auschwitz scenes an unreal sheen.
Mr Evans and his comrades fled Auschwitz shortly before the Russians liberated the camp.
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He had an identical twin named Jeno, who was last seen by Allied doctors in Auschwitz.
Roman Halter was taken to Auschwitz and Stutthof concentration camps, then a German labour camp.
Mrs McAleese made the comments before attending ceremonies marking 60 years since Auschwitz was liberated.
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The following day, he travelled to Auschwitz in Poland to join the March of the Living.
She made the controversial comments before attending ceremonies marking 60 years since Auschwitz was liberated.
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"This path ended in Auschwitz, " said Andreas Nachama, the director of the Topography of Terror.
Auschwitz-Birkenau, set up by the Germans in Nazi-occupied Poland, is largely intact and is now a museum.
His parents were sent to the gas chambers at Auschwitz, the first camp the family went to.
About 1.5 million people, primarily Jews, were killed at the Auschwitz camp complex between 1940 and 1945.
They refused to bomb Auschwitz even though Allied pilots were sent on bombing missions five miles away.
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It is on this date that the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated.
Pierre Lellouche, his junior Europe minister, slipped in a reference to Auschwitz when talking about the bail-out.
They refused to bomb the railroad tracks leading to Auschwitz, or the crematoria at the death camp.
Svenk and most of the original cast were eventually sent to Auschwitz, and the original script was lost.
In 2005, he traveled to Auschwitz with French deportees to mark the 60th anniversary of the camp's liberation.
For the first time, a majority of Poles see Auschwitz chiefly as a place where Jews were killed.
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Her father and brother were killed in Auschwitz, while she survived with her mother and four remaining siblings.
Mr Schneier told the crowd that he was a Holocaust survivor who had lost his family in Auschwitz.
Auschwitz was the biggest Nazi extermination camp, where more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered.
Mr Evans said his memories of Auschwitz were still difficult to live with.
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Her granddaughter, Madeleine, who fought in the French Resistance, was sent to Auschwitz.
So declared Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu as he spoke at Auschwitz-Birkenau on Wednesday, the 65th anniversary of its liberation.
Poland was the site of some of the most notorious Nazi German death camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka and Sobibor.
Csizsik-Csatary participated in the deportation of 15, 700 Jews to the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944, witnesses have told the center.
"Over 1 million people were systematically murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau, " Karen Pollock, head of the Holocaust Educational Trust, told The Sunday Times.
German prosecutors are examining the case of an 87-year-old Nazi suspect accused of involvement in mass murder at the Auschwitz death camp.
Auschwitz by Italian poet Santino Spinelli is engraved around the pool's rim.
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