They returned, wearing their blue and white stripes as badges of courage. And resilience. And resolve. Survivors of the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp returned Tuesday to the complex in Oswiecim, Poland, to mark the 70th anniversary of their liberation by the Soviet army at the end of World War II. Many came with the notorious stripes of their former death-camp prison uniforms fashioned into scarves, or, like Miroslaw Celka, 89, into a sash bearing his former prisoner number. The presidents of Germany and France, along with prominent activists like Steven Spielberg, who directed the 1993 Holocaust film Schindler's List, joined some 300 survivors...
- 1/27/2015
- by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall
- PEOPLE.com
They returned, wearing their blue and white stripes as badges of courage. And resilience. And resolve. Survivors of the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp returned Tuesday to the complex in Oswiecim, Poland, to mark the 70th anniversary of their liberation by the Soviet army at the end of World War II. Many came with the notorious stripes of their former death-camp prison uniforms fashioned into scarves, or, like Miroslaw Celka, 89, into a sash bearing his former prisoner number. The presidents of Germany and France, along with prominent activists like Steven Spielberg, who directed the 1993 Holocaust film Schindler's List, joined some 300 survivors...
- 1/27/2015
- by Sandra Sobieraj Westfall
- PEOPLE.com
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