He himself narrowly evaded death, and likely would have been among the over 6 million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, if not for an especially remarkable escape. At Auschwitz in 1944 ...

In a desperate bid for survival, she made the impossible choice to leave her father behind during their escape from Auschwitz. For years, guilt consumed her—until two decades later, an unexpected ...

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They took the whole family to Auschwitz, and she was left there alone. She escaped through the fire escape and ran to her ...

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The Nazi extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated ... of a fear of being murdered if they failed to play well. "It was an escape somehow into excellence," she said.