By Harriet Sherwood / The ObserverRenee Salt had just turned 15 when she arrived at the gates of hell. Her journey with her parents to Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp near Krakow in German-occupied Poland, was by cattle truck, wedged in with hundreds of other Jews, no food, water or air for 24 hours. The “Angel of Death” — Nazi SS officer Josef Mengele, a doctor who conducted cruel experiments on prisoners — stood at the head of the line. A ceremony is to include speeches by survivors, and by Polish President Andrzej Duda and World Jewish Congress president Ronald Lauder. At least 1.1 million people — mostly Jews — were murdered at Auschwitz, the largest of the Nazi death camps.

Source: Taipei Times January 16, 2020 16:07 UTC