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Family Remembers Auschwitz Survivor's Will to Survive

Milwaukee, Wis. -- Zygmunt Choroszy was buried Saturday with the number 134 tattooed on his arm. Tucked into his coffin was the faded holy card he would hide in his mouth from Nazi guards while at Auschwitz. Choroszy, a Polish Catholic and political prisoner, was arrested for underground activity in late 1939. He survived...

Germany Donates $80 Million to Preserve Auschwitz Memorial

(Dec. 16) -- Germany has pledged to donate $80 million toward the restoration of the memorial at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most notorious Nazi death camp in Europe. The barracks and gas chambers -- physical evidence of the Holocaust -- are on the verge of collapse. "Germany acknowledges its historic responsibility to keep...

Ex-Neo Nazi Pleads Guilty to Theft of Auschwitz Sign

(Nov. 26) -- The former leader of a Swedish neo-Nazi group has been sentenced to 32 months in jail after he pleaded guilty to organizing the theft of a sign from the main gate of the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Anders Hoegstroem -- who could have faced up to 10 years in jail if convicted in Poland of...

Director's Graphic Holocaust Movie Outrages Critics

(Nov. 14) -- Ask a theater full of movie critics to name the worst director in the world, and they'll almost certainly plump for one man: Uwe Boll. The German filmmaker has spent his career churning out straight-to-DVD adaptations of video games such as "BloodRayne" and "Far Cry," which make up for their lack of plot with...

Opinion: Dancing at Auschwitz: It's a Me Me Me World

(July 19) -- Since when did the Holocaust get so zany? For the past couple of years, I've been a bit stick-in-the-muddish with some of my good friends who all think they're the first ones to send me a video of a rabid Adolf Hitler comically ranting about one thing or another. The re-dubbed dialogue changes from parody to...

Background on auschwitz

Auschwitz concentration camp ( ) was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II.

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