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Auschwitz: 80th Anniversary, & Mini-Course on Genocides
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Auschwitz: 80th Anniversary, & Mini-Course on Genocides

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This week marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in late January of 1945. I don’t know if you would say we were privileged, but my wife, son, and I managed to spend a day at Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps in Poland in 2016.

Son Alex, 19, at the gates of Auschwitz.

“Work Will Set You Free” is the greeting in German (“Arbei…

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