70 Years After Their Liberation From Auschwitz Death Camp, The Survivors Share Their Stories
Auschwitz was the most infamous of Hitler’s concentration camps, so for the 70th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation, Reuters sat down with the remaining survivors of the camp to record their memories and take their portraits. The result was a powerful and historically significant photo series.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was located in occupied Poland. It is estimated that approximately 1.5 million people, most of them Jews, were killed there during its time of operation. Fittingly, it became one of the biggest monuments to the horrors of World War II and the Holocaust.
About 200,000 were saved when the camp was liberated by the advancing Red Army on January 27, 1945. Of the survivors, 300 still live.
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Eva Fahidi, 90, holds a picture of her family, who were all killed in the concentration camp
Jerzy Ulatowski, 83, was taken by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau when he was 13 years old
Jadwiga Bogucka, 89, was sent to a death camp with her mother. She’s holding a picture of herself from 1944
Jacek Nadolny, 77, holds up a wartime photo of his family
Maria Stroinska, 82, holds a family photo taken before the war
Halina Brzozowska, 82,was taken from her home with her 6-year-old sister. She holds a picture of herself taken during the war
Laszlo Bernath, 87, holds up a picture of his family, who were all killed in the concentration camp
Danuta Bogdaniuk-Bogucka, 80, was 10 years old when she was sent to Auschwitz, where she was used for Josef Mengele’s experiments
Barbara Doniecka, 80, was 12 years old when she was sent to Auschwitz. She holds a wartime photo of herself
Elzbieta Sobczynska, 80, was sent to Auschwitz with her mother and brother when she was was 10 years old
Marian Majerowicz, 88, whose mother and younger brother were both killed in the gas chamber
Erzsebet Brodt, 89, holds a picture of her family, who were killed in the concentration camp
Stefan Sot, 83, was 13 years old when he was sent from his home to a camp
Janina Reklajtis, 80, was 12 years old when she and her mother were sent to Auschwitz
Lajos Erdelyi, 87, holds a drawing made by a campmate
Bogdan Bartnikowski, 82, was 12 years old when he and his mother were sent to Auschwitz
Janos Forgacs, 87, was in a group transported to a camp in a cattle wagon with sealed windows
Martynas Klimas
Writes like a mad dervish, rolls to dodge responsibility, might have bitten the Moon once.
