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Auschwitz

noun as in death camp

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Its Jan. 27 opening marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

“Some say we can’t come back to live near a place like this. It would be like living near Auschwitz,” she said.

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Several of the profiles and groups were removed, including ones originally flagged by the Auschwitz Memorial in June.

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"I felt threatened and preyed upon.... even the sight of a cop or a cop car... it's like an Auschwitz survivor seeing a Nazi soldier," Freeman said, court documents show.

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These chilling figures unravel the brutal truths of modern warfare, a sickening continuation of the horrors we dared to believe had been consigned to history’s darkest pages, alongside Auschwitz and Hiroshima.

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