Auschwitz liberation 70 years on: Caroline Wyatt’s family history search
It’s the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the extermination camp in Nazi-occupied Poland. Between 1940 and 1945, well over a million people perished in its gas chambers or from starvation, punishment beatings or being executed. The vast majority of them were Jews from across Europe. The camp also housed a long list of Hitler's other enemies: Polish political prisoners, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma, and homosexuals. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ correspondent Caroline Wyatt has been to Auschwitz to look for the records of her natural grandfather who survived the camp.
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