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Auschwitz
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Auschwitz ˈowʃvits a Nazi concentration camp in World War II, near the town of Oświęcim (Auschwitz) in Poland.
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Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945-1979
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 3/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Jonathan Huener. Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration...cloth. $24.95, paper. How was the Auschwitz legacy understood and utilized in communist...these interpretations had on the way Auschwitz has been understood since then? Answers...
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Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration, 1945-1979.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Shofar; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; Auschwitz, Poland, and the Politics of Commemoration...In tracing the history of the site of Auschwitz, Poland through the postwar years from...to Poland, which included a stop at Auschwitz, but traces the history through the...
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 "Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)")
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AUSCHWITZ - THEN AND NOW : TOWN STRIVES FOR NORMALCY AMID ITS DARK HISTORY.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 4/7/1996; 700+ words
; ...entrance to the Birkenau section of the Auschwitz concentration camp complex and, in the...day than the crematoriums could burn. Auschwitz survivor and author Primo Levi dubbed...is my town, but everybody knows it as Auschwitz, the factory of death,'' said Szymanska...
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Auschwitz-Birkenau: a sacred zone of inviolability.
Magazine article from: Midstream; 11/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; Sixty years after the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, there is a consensus to...to the dignity that the sacred site of Auschwitz-Birkenau deserves. What had transpired...has acknowledged the symbolic impact of Auschwitz-Birkenau, both in Poland and throughout...
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Auschwitz/concentration camps time line.(SKILLS MASTER)(Chronology)
Magazine article from: Junior Scholastic; 4/25/2005; 700+ words
; Auschwitz, Germany's largest concentration and...system of three large camps. The main Auschwitz camp--built near Krakow, Poland...used mostly for forced labor. Today, Auschwitz remains one of the most powerful symbols...
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Backgrounder: Auschwitz Concentration Camp: testimony to Holocaust
News Wire article from: Xinhua News Agency; 1/25/2005; 700+ words
; Backgrounder: Auschwitz Concentration Camp: testimony to Holocaust BEIJING...The 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Concentration Camp will be commemorated at the Auschwitz II-Birkenau site on Jan. 27. The following...
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THE AUSCHWITZ ALBUM HISTORY AMID THE HORROR, CAMP OFFICERS AND STAFF WENT ABOUT THEIR LIVES: SUNBATHING, GOING ON PICNICS, PUTTING UP DECORATIONS. AS THESE ASTONISHING PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW, AUSCHWITZ WAS NOT HELL FOR EVERYONE
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 7/6/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...wrote, appeared to depict 'activities in and around Auschwitz, Poland'. His letter was delivered to Rebecca...also assumed that the officer was mistaken about Auschwitz. Auschwitz, in southern Poland, was the largest of the Nazi...
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 "USA Today (Magazine)")
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The Auschwitz album: story of a death factory: Hitler's "final solution of the Jewish question" sent millions to extermination in this installation's gas chambers and crematoriums.(Focus on the Holocaust)
Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine); 3/1/2006; 700+ words
; ...transport of Hungarian Jews at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. To Jacob's horror...the album. She had been a prisoner at Auschwitz from May to December of 1944 before being...duplicated for this exhibition. "The Auschwitz Album: The Story of a Transport" includes...
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Visiting Auschwitz Before the Ovens: How a Small Polish Town Became
Newspaper article from: Forward; 11/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...Harris Forward 11-01-1996 Visiting Auschwitz Before the Ovens: How a Small Polish...set out to reconstruct the history of Auschwitz -- or, to the Poles, Oswieim -- as...the inevitable tendency to think about Auschwitz as a place that burst into human history...
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The AUSCHWITZ ALBUM: STORY OF A DEATH FACTORY
Magazine article from: USA Today; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; The AUSCHWITZ ALBUM: STORY OF A DEATH FACTORY Hitler...transport of Hungarian Jews at the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp. To Jacob's horror...the album. She had been a prisoner at Auschwitz from May to December of 1944 before being...
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Auschwitz
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to World War II
Auschwitz was the German name for Oswiecim, a town in southern...were built outside the town in 1940–2. Auschwitz I was built in June 1940 for Polish political prisoners; Auschwitz II, or Birkenau, which could accommodate over...
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Josef Mengele
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...thousands of Jews to the gas chambers at Auschwitz/Birkenau, a concentration camp in...duty, and in May he was assigned to Auschwitz (Oswiecim), where some two million...humans and screening new arrivals at Auschwitz for slave labor, laboratory exploitation...
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Lanzmann, Claude
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
...Holocaust's Challenge to History," in Auschwitz and After: Race, Culture, and "The...There Is No Why,"' in History after Auschwitz , Ithaca, New York, 1998. Fisher...Rossel, who visited the death camps of Auschwitz and Treblinka and reported that nothing...
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Richard L. Rubenstein
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Rubenstein published his first book, After Auschwitz: Radical Theology and Contemporary Judaism...s will is to maintain that God wanted Auschwitz — an idea which Rubenstein...is the Lord of all creation." After Auschwitz took the Jewish community by storm...
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Holocaust, Shoʾah
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...destruction in concentration camps (see AUSCHWITZ ). It is impossible to know the exact...Holocaust’: ‘After Auschwitz, leave us alone.’ For Berkowits...dead. Yet Rubenstein (e.g. After Auschwitz , 1966) has made a thoroughly religious...
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