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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Melanie Lidman

After 80 years, not many Auschwitz survivors are left. One man makes telling the stories his mission

Israel Auschwitz Anniversary - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Naftali Fürst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on Nov. 3, 1944. He was 12 years old.

SS soldiers threw open the doors of the cattle car, where he was crammed in with his mother, father, brother, and more than 80 others. He remembers the tall chimneys of the crematoria, flames roaring from the top.

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