At the newly opened, largest-ever Auschwitz exhibition in North America, an extensive collection of objects and photograph paint a devastating picture
Ruth Grunberger was 16 years old when she stepped off a cattle car at Auschwitz in the dead of night in May 1944. She disembarked with nearly 100 other Jewish people, including her parents and her seven siblings, who had made the three-day, 250-mile trip from their hometown of Munkács – in then Czechoslovakia, where they had spent weeks imprisoned in the basement of a brick factory – to the concentration and extermination camp, located in the suburbs of the city of OÅ›wiÄ™cim, in the southern part of German-occupied Poland.
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