Weisz-Gut has now lived for over a year in Oswiecim, a town of around 40,000 inhabitants whose name was Germanized into Auschwitz by the Nazis during the Second World War when they occupied Poland.
The Lost Music of Auschwitz' and 'The Last Musician of Auschwitz' air in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp where more than 1.1 million people lost their lives.
Established in 1940 as a holding camp for political prisoners in occupied Poland, Auschwitz (the German name for the town of Oświęcim) evolved into the largest and most notorious of the Nazi ...
Poland has ensured that Israel's leader could attend events marking 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz despite an ICC arrest warrant, thought he's not expected.
Starmer visited the site in southern Poland — an area under German occupation ... hard labor and disease at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the complex of concentration, forced labor and death camps that ...