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‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

For 65 unbroken years Anna Odi has lived in one of the characteristic red-brick blocks that have become synonymous with the largest documented mass murder in the history of humanity. Kalbar/TFN

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

Skeletal remains of men, women and children murdered by Gestapo finally laid to rest

The 75 victims buried today, which include three infants, were discovered during archaeological work carried out earlier this year by a special section of Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance.

All mapped out: new interactive map details Poland’s tourist hotspots – and who’s visiting them

Using data taken between 2005 and 2019, the map shows that Germans top the table when it comes to tourism while the Brits come second.

Cops seize 300 Nazi-German documents put online for sale

​The documents produced between 1939 and 1944 by the occupying German authorities in Łódź, came to light when a man living in the Bielany district of Warsaw who says he bought them at a market offered the collection for sale demanding PLN 59,000.​

Gunned down and buried alive. Polish body hunters find WWII boy hero

The seven-year-old child was trying to warn his parents of approaching German troops when he was gunned down and later buried alive.

Unbelievable tale of children born and imprisoned in notorious Gestapo prison retold in harrowing new book

After months of meticulous research, author Sylwia Winnik gathered together eight accounts of children who spent part of their childhood in the German prison in occupied Warsaw for her new book Dzieci z Pawiaka (The Children from Pawiak). TFN’s Stuart Dowell met her to find out more.

Fascinating new map of pre-war Wrocław uncovers long-forgotten German signs

The project ‘Looking at Breslau from Under the Plaster’, aims to collate and systemize the pre-war shop signs, advertising and other street graphics and place them on a map that locals and tourists can use to explore and discover the city from a different perspective.

Lodz marks international Roma and Sinti Genocide Remembrance Day

Lodz in central Poland on Monday marked the International Roma and Sinti Genocide Remembrance Day in the city's World War Two Jewish ghetto, better known as the Litzmannstadt Ghetto. Over 5,000 city's inhabitants were killed by the Germans.

Identity of child murdered in Auschwitz found scrawled inside old shoe

The discovery described by museum staff as "exceptional" was made during conservation work on shoes that make up part of the permanent exhibition at the Auschwitz museum.

‘I am a Jew. My place is in the struggle against the Nazis for the honour of my people and for a free Poland’: the little-known story of the female assassin who terrorised the Nazis

Audacious and courageous Niuta Tajtelbaum would use her good looks to bypass guards in order to carry out her deadly work.

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