They refused to bomb the railroad tracks leading to Auschwitz, or the crematoria at the death camp.
The president's use of the term "Polish death camp, " rather than Nazi death camp sparked outrage in Poland.
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Kahn's mother survived a Nazi death camp, his father the French Foreign Legion.
Auschwitz was the biggest Nazi death camp where more than 1.1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered.
German prosecutors are examining the case of an 87-year-old Nazi suspect accused of involvement in mass murder at the Auschwitz death camp.
The Nazi-hunting Simon Wiesenthal Center accuses Mr Csatary of involvement in the deportation of 15, 700 Jews from Kosice to the Auschwitz death camp.
In March this year Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk, found guilty for his role as a Nazi guard at the Sobibor death camp, died aged 91.
Speakers scheduled for this event include Henri Borlant, a physician who survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, as well as Yehuda Bauer and Irina Bokova.
As the son of Vladek and Anja Spiegelman, both of whom survived the Auschwitz death camp, he knew more than many of what he spoke.
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Prosecutors in Poland have opened an investigation into reports that a Swedish artist used ashes from the Nazi death camp at Majdanek in a painting.
The sign has since been repaired although it now hangs in the Auschwitz museum and has been replaced by a replica at the entrance to the former death camp.
This is good news for the country's tourism industry which sees a great deal of business from both foreign and local visitors to the Nazi death camp.
Demjanjuk was found guilty of being an accessory to the murder of 28, 060 Jews while he was a guard at the Sobibor death camp in occupied Poland.
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As a spy for the French Resistance, he survived the Nazi death camp at Buchenwald by assuming the identity of a French prisoner who was already dead.
Sixty years have passed since I left this death camp...
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In Block 5, battered suitcases are unceremoniously heaped, each bearing the name of the person who was stripped of their possessions and their dignity upon arriving at the death camp.
Prosecutors, however, say they have documents which prove his Nazi background, including an SS identity card which shows he was posted to the death camp in Sobibor in 1943 and many witness testimonies.
The film's unique plot follows an Italian Jew through his marriage to his family's internment in a Nazi death camp, where he shields his young son from reality by creating an elaborate game.
Even the semi-formal pre-execution portraits of inmates at the Tuol Sleng death camp, bizarrely ordered by the Khmer Rouge and taken by a teenage photographer, contain a power that goes beyond mere horror.
BERLIN A 93-year-old man who was deported from the U.S. for lying about his Nazi past was arrested by German authorities Monday on allegations he served as an Auschwitz death camp guard, Stuttgart prosecutors said.
Pope Benedict the XVI today winds up his four-day visit to Poland with what is likely to be its emotional highpoint: a visit to the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz by a German Pope.
In 1942, he sneaked into the Warsaw ghetto and a German death camp, then made it out to London and Washington no easy task at the time to call on Western leaders to save the Jews.
"This is a very positive step, we welcome the arrest, I hope this will only be the first of many arrests, trials and convictions of death camp guards, " the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Efraim Zuroff told AFP news agency.
Under the new line of thinking, even without proof of participation in a specific crime, a person who served at a death camp can be charged with accessory to murder because the camp's sole function was to kill people.
Netanyahu used his speech at the notorious death camp to nudge what he referred to as "the enlightened nations of the world" to recognize that "murderous evil" has to be stopped as early as possible to prevent it from achieving its aims.
All four bishops were reinstated in January, but shortly before that, Williamson said in an interview with Swedish television that he did not believe that Nazi leader Adolf Hitler deliberately set out to murder Jews or that there were gas chambers at the Auschwitz death camp.
But the case is now being pursued on the same legal theory used to prosecute former Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk, who died last year while appealing his 2011 conviction in Germany for accessory to murder on the grounds that he served as a guard at the Sobibor death camp.
The triumphalism of the propaganda films produced by Goebbels's ministry gives way to particularly horrific scenes of death-camp corpses, and seemingly endless vistas of a Berlin reduced to rubble by Allied bombing.
Avital was a 16-year-old Jewish prisoner in the camp, close to death.
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