A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since liberation of the notorious Nazi camp.
Furst, now 92, is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors able to share first-person accounts of the horrors they endured, as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazis' most notorious death camp. Furst is returning to Auschwitz for the annual occasion, his fourth trip to the camp.
The World War II extermination of Europe's Jews by Nazi Germany began after the invasion of Poland in 1939 and increased in scale with the creation of death camps.
Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror of the Holocaust to global attention.
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The Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was liberated 80 years ago, is an enduring symbol of the Holocaust. Part of German dictator Adolf Hitler's "Final Solution" plan for the genocide of European Jews, the camp operated near the occupied southern Polish town of Oswiecim between June 1940 and January 1945.
Fürst, now 92, is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors able to share ... 1943 – one day after Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the cessation of the use of the gas chambers ...
Fürst, now 92, is one of a dwindling number of Holocaust survivors able to share ... 1944 — one day after Nazi leader Heinrich Himmler ordered the cessation of the use of the gas chambers ...
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Mindu Hornick, 95, says luck, kindness and being with her sister saved her from the Auschwitz gas chamber 80 years after its liberation
AFP photographer Eric Schwab recorded the horrors of the Holocaust -- the crematoria, the piles of skeletal bodies and emaciated faces -- as he went from one Nazi extermination camp to the next in the spring of 1945 searching for his mother.
Images of what the Allies found when they liberated the Nazi death camps towards the end of World War II brought the horror of the Holocaust to global attention. Many of the ghastly pictures were at first held back from the broader public,