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Topic spans: 1945 - 2004
Life after Auschwitz
Six decades after Auschwitz was liberated, the biggest and most brutal Nazi death camp remains a potent symbol of terror and genocide. More than a million Jews were murdered there, as well as tens of thousands of Poles, Gypsies and Soviet prisoners of war. When Allied soldiers liberated the complex in Poland in January 1945, they found skeletal prisoners, mounds of corpses, gas chambers and cooling crematoria. Survivors scattered, many to Canada, to rebuild their lives. But the Nazi atrocities they witnessed have echoed through the years along with the cry "Never again."
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5 radio clips
Hana's suitcase turns out to be a replica
Broadcast Date: April 6, 2004
The Auschwitz Museum admits the original suitcase was destroyed in a fire.Hana's suitcase turns out to be a replica
Medium: Television
Program: The National
Broadcast Date: April 6, 2004
Guest(s): George Brady, Fumiko Ishioka
Reporter: Joe Schlesinger
Duration: 5:01
Last updated:
Jan. 21, 2005
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Radio
4:23
Nov. 11, 1944
Each November 11, we honour the more than 116,000 Canadian men and women who died in war and peacekeeping missions.
Radio
3:41
April 20, 1945
Liberated Allied prisoners of war talk about the wretched living conditions in German prison camps.
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Hana's suitcase turns out to be a replica.
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Last updated: Jan. 21, 2005.
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