Erno Spiegel was spared because he was a twin. He went on to help others at Auschwitz, as detailed in this documentary by Perri Peltz and Matthew O’Neill.

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - When Agnes Darvas was deported from Hungary to Auschwitz in 1944 ... as she was and then moved on to another concentration camp, Mauthausen. By the time they reached the ...

Hungarian Jews, wearing the Jewish star ... Alamy An estimated 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz concentration camp - 1.1 million of whom were murdered in the gas chambers.

Gyorgy Kun, a Hungarian Jew ... Mr. Kun arrived at Auschwitz, the Nazi killing center in occupied Poland, at the outset of the camp’s deadliest period. Between May 15 and July 9, 1944 ...

Birkenau, part concentration camp, part extermination centre ... in June represented less than half of 1% of the Hungarian Jews deported to Auschwitz. The Spring and early Summer of 1944 was ...

The Nazi officer made commandant of the concentration camp, Rudolf Höss ... million Jewish people were murdered at Auschwitz. One specific example was Hungary's Jewish population.

A well-known gynecologist, Perl was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp when the Nazis invaded Hungary that year. There, Dr. Josef Mengele, who was notoriously nicknamed “the Angel of ...

Image: Prisoners from Hungary arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp in spring 1945. Pic: AP/DPA Image: The railway leading to the concentration camp. Pic: AP "You don't think that you live in ...

Edith Eger was 16 when she was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp in May 1944 ... Eger was raised in Hungary, and “as a teenager in Hungary in the 1940s searching for meaning in a time ...

An Auschwitz survivor who was just 13 when she arrived at the concentration camp says the recent rise ... Born Zsuzsanna Blau ...