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Marian Turski, Holocaust survivor and historian, dies aged 98 • Feb. 20, 2025, 3:42 AM ET (BBC)
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Also Known As Oświęcim • Auschwitz-Birkenau • Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Nazi German Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940–-1945) • Birkenau
Date 1940 - 1945

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  • In 1944, prisoners at Auschwitz revolted, using smuggled gunpowder to set the crematorium on fire.
  • Polish officer Witold Pilecki was voluntarily imprisoned at Auschwitz to gather intel.
  • The number of deaths at Auschwitz exceeds the combined American and British death toll in World War II.

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