Auschwitz Survivors, 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camp
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2. 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp
Millions of lives lost, devastated countries and six years of
bloody clashes after the Second World War came to an end
in May 1945. A few months earlier, in January of that year,
the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz was finally liberated
by the Soviet troops
Auschwitz survivors, 70 years on
3. Auschwitz death camp survivor Jadwiga Bogucka
(maiden name Regulska), 89, who was registered
with camp number 86356, poses for a portrait in
Warsaw, January 12, 2015. During the Warsaw
Uprising in August, 1944, when Bogucka was 19,
she and her mother were sent from their house
to a camp in Pruszkow and then moved on
August 12, 1944 by train to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
About 1.5 million people, most of them Jews,
were killed at the Nazi camp which has became a
symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust and
World War Two. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
4. Auschwitz death camp survivor Jadwiga
Bogucka (maiden name Regulska), 89, holds a
picture of herself from 1944 in Warsaw. The
camp was liberated by Soviet Red Army troops
on January 27, 1945 and about 200,000 camp
inmates survived. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
5. Auschwitz death camp survivor Marian
Majerowicz, 88, who was registered with
camp number 157715, poses for a
portrait in Warsaw, January 13, 2015.
Originally from Myszkow, Majerowicz
was 17 when he was sent to Auschwitz-
Birkenau. At the camp he was briefly
reunited with his father, who told him
that his mother and younger brother
were both killed in the gas chambers.
Majerowicz's father didn't survive the
war. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
6. Auschwitz death camp
survivor Eva Fahidi, 90,
holds a picture of her family,
who were all killed in the
concentration camp during
World War Two, as she
poses for a portrait in
Budapest, January 12, 2015.
Fahidi was 18 in 1944 when
she and her family were
moved from Debrecen to
Auschwitz-Birkenau.
REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh
7. Auschwitz death camp survivor Stefan
Sot, 83, holds a picture of himself
taken during the war, in Warsaw,
January 5, 2015. After the war he
worked as a typesetter at a printing
house. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
8. Auschwitz death camp survivor
Elzbieta Sobczynska (maiden name
Gremblicka), 80, who was registered
with camp number 85536, gestures
as she poses for a portrait in
Warsaw, January 7, 2015. During the
Warsaw Uprising, when Sobczynska
was 10-years-old, she was sent with
her mother and brother from their
home to a camp in Pruszkow and
then moved by train to Auschwitz-
Birkenau. There they were
separated into blocks for women,
girls and boys. REUTERS/Kacper
Pempel
9. Auschwitz death camp
survivor Halina
Brzozowska, 82, who
was registered with
camp number 86356,
poses for a portrait in
Warsaw, January 12,
2015. Brzozowska was
12-years-old during
the Warsaw Uprising
when her family were
sent to a camp in
Pruszkow, she and her
6-year-old sister were
then moved by train
to Auschwitz-
Birkenau. Brzozowska
said that it was hard to
say what had
happened to them,
that they were taken
from their homes,
family and lost their
childhood.
REUTERS/Kacper
Pempel
10. Auschwitz death camp survivor
Bogdan Bartnikowski, 82, holds a
family photograph as he poses for a
portrait in Warsaw, December 18,
2014. After the war Bartnikowski
worked as a pilot and then became a
journalist and writer.
REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
11. Auschwitz death camp survivor
Henryk Duszyk, 80, who was
registered with camp number
192692, poses for a portrait in
Warsaw, January 12, 2015.
Duszyk was 10-years-old during
the Warsaw Uprising in August,
1944. He was sent to Auschwitz-
Birkenau with his father, brother
and stepmother. The family
were separated and Duszyk only
saw his father once more before
he was killed at the camp.
Duszyk, his brother and
stepmother were kept at
Auschwitz-Birkenau until the
camp was liberated.
REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
12. Auschwitz death camp
survivor Laszlo Bernath,
87, poses for a portrait in
Budapest, January 12,
2015. Bernath credits his
father being a practical
man with his survival of
Auschwitz. He was 15
when they were taken
but his father told him to
lie about his age so that
they would not be
separated. Even whilst in
the camp, Bernath had
no idea about the gas
chambers.
REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh
13. Auschwitz death camp survivor Laszlo
Bernath, 87, holds up a picture of his
family, who were all killed in the
concentration camp during World War
Two, in Budapest, January 12, 2015.
REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh
14. Auschwitz death camp survivor
Janina Reklajtis, 80, who was
registered with camp number
83043, holds a photo of herself
taken during the war as she poses
for a portrait in Warsaw, January 7,
2015. Reklajtis was 12-years-old
during the Warsaw Uprising when
she and her mother were sent to
Auschwitz-Birkenau. They were sent
to a labor camp in Berlin in January
1945 and were kept there until they
were liberated. REUTERS/Kacper
Pempel
15. Auschwitz death camp survivor
Danuta Bogdaniuk-Bogucka (maiden
name Kaminska), 80, poses for a
portrait in Warsaw, January 5, 2015.
Bogdaniuk-Bogucka was 10-years-
old when she was sent to Auschwitz-
Birkenau camp with her mother.
Bogdaniuk-Bogucka was part of
Josef Mengele's experiments when
she was in Auschwitz.
REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
16. Auschwitz death camp survivor Erzsebet Brodt, 89, holds a picture of her family,
who were killed in the concentration camp during World War Two, as she poses
for a portrait in Budapest, January 12, 2015. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh
17. Auschwitz death camp
survivor Jerzy Ulatowski,
83, who was registered
with camp number
192823, poses for a photo
in Warsaw, January 12,
2015. Ulatowski was taken
by train to Auschwitz-
Birkenau when he was 13-
years-old. In January 1945
he managed to escape
with his family, as there
was a lack of power in the
barbed wire surrounding
the camp.
REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
18. Auschwitz death camp survivor Jacek Nadolny, 77, who was registered with camp
number 192685, holds up a wartime photo of his family, as he poses for a portrait
in Warsaw, January 7, 2015. In January 1945 the family was moved to a labor
camp in Berlin. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
19. Auschwitz death camp survivor
Janos Forgacs, 87, holds a
document as he poses for a
portrait in Budapest, January 12,
2015. Forgacs recalls that he was
in a group transported to a camp
in a cattle wagon, with the
windows sealed by barbed wire. A
military officer told them to hand
over their belongings, telling
them they would not need them
anymore. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh
20. Auschwitz death camp
survivor Maria Stroinska,
82, gestures as she poses
for a portrait in Warsaw,
January 12, 2015.
Stroinska was 12-years-old
during the Warsaw
Uprising when she and her
sister were sent from their
house to a camp in
Pruszkow before she was
moved alone by train to
Auschwitz-Birkenau.
REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
21. Auschwitz death
camp survivor
Maria Stroinska,
82, holds a
family photo
taken before the
war, as she poses
for a portrait in
Warsaw, January
12, 2015.
REUTERS/Kacper
Pempel
22. Auschwitz death camp survivor Lajos
Erdelyi, 87, holds a drawing made by a
campmate as he poses for a portrait in
Budapest, January 13, 2015. Erdelyi was
sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944
and was later moved to another camp.
When he was freed he weighed under
30kg, but tried to walk home. He
collapsed, and was taken to a hospital by
a farmer. REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh
23. Auschwitz death camp survivor Elzbieta
Sobczynska (maiden name Gremblicka),
80, holds her father's watch, which was
kept by her brother while they were in the
camp. Sobczynska said that she was
robbed of her childhood, and lost the
chance to experience a different kind of
life. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel
26. A general view of the former German Nazi concentration and
extermination camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland, January
19, 2015. REUTERS/Pawel Ulatowski
27. Suitcases that belonged to people
brought to Auschwitz for
extermination are displayed at the
former German Nazi concentration
and extermination camp Auschwitz in
Oswiecim January 19, 2015.
REUTERS/Pawel Ulatowski
28. General view of wooden bunks inside a destroyed barracks at the former German Nazi concentration and
extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau near Oswiecim January 19, 2015. REUTERS/Pawel Ulatowski
29. General view of a 'wall of death' at the former German Nazi concentration and
extermination camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim January 19, 2015. REUTERS/Pawel Ulatowski
30. Discarded shoes are displayed at the former German Nazi
concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz in
Oswiecim January 19, 2015. REUTERS/Pawel Ulatowski
31. General view of destroyed
barracks at the former
German Nazi
concentration and
extermination camp
Auschwitz-Birkenau near
Oswiecim January 19,
2015. REUTERS/Pawel
Ulatowski
32. Artificial limbs that belonged to people
brought to Auschwitz for extermination
are displayed at the former German
Nazi concentration and extermination
camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim January
19, 2015. REUTERS/Pawel Ulatowski
33. The sign Arbeit macht frei (Work makes you free) is pictured at the main gate of
the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz in
Oswiecim January 19, 2015. REUTERS/Pawel Ulatowski
34. Empty Zyklon B canisters are displayed at
the former German Nazi concentration
and extermination camp Auschwitz in
Oswiecim January 19, 2015.
REUTERS/Pawel Ulatowski
35. A general view of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp
Auschwitz in Oswiecim January 19, 2015. REUTERS/Pawel Ulatowski
36. A general view of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp
Auschwitz in Oswiecim January 19, 2015. REUTERS/Pawel Ulatowski
37. Glasses that belonged to people brought to
Auschwitz for extermination are displayed at the
former German Nazi concentration and
extermination camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim January
19, 2015. REUTERS/Pawel Ulatowski
38. An Israeli national flag is seen at destroyed
barracks at the former German Nazi
concentration and extermination camp
Auschwitz-Birkenau near Oswiecim January
19, 2015. REUTERS/Pawel Ulatowski
39. Visitors look at a display
of discarded shoes at
the former German Nazi
concentration and
extermination camp
Auschwitz in Oswiecim
January 19, 2015.
REUTERS/Pawel
Ulatowski
40. A large tent erected ahead of an anniversary ceremony is seen at the former
German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau near
Oswiecim January 19, 2015. REUTERS/Pawel Ulatowski
41. A general view of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz
in Oswiecim January 19, 2015. REUTERS/Pawel Ulatowski
44. A large tent erected ahead of an anniversary ceremony is seen
at the former German Nazi concentration and extermination
camp Auschwitz-Birkenau near Oswiecim January 19, 2015.
REUTERS/Pawel Ulatowski