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Auschwitz: Sephardic Jews
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Perhaps the best known Auschwitz inmate was Anne Frank, who is known around the world for her famous diary. But few people know that thousands of Jews, including Anne and her father, Otto Frank, "survived" Auschwitz.
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Auschwitz has been the scene of many controversial issues because of conflicted memory in Poland about victimization and ... because of the absence of Jews. Jews were 10% of the 1939 Polish population and now number less than 20,000.
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During its history, the prison population of Auschwitz changed composition significantly. At first, its inmates were almost entirely Polish. From April 1940 to March 1942, on about 27,000 inmates, 30 percent were Poles and 57 percent were Jews. From March 1942 to March 1943 of 162,000 inmates, 60 percent were Jews.
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The site of Auschwitz-Birkenau has undergone a major change since the fall of the Berlin Wall. During the Communist era, "foreign visitors were often shocked by the presentations", which glorified the role of the Soviet Army, according to the European Jewish Congress.[40]
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The name Auschwitz is associated with the systematic murder of Jews by the Nazis during World War Two. Auschwitz, commanded by Rudolf Höss, was two places in the same locality with a multitude of local offshoots – but all with the same end product – the murder of those despised by the Nazi hierarchy.
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Auschwitz was never conceived as a place to kill Jews. It developed in step with fundamental Nazi values, constantly changing in response to new 'needs' as the German war effort ebbed and flowed.
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