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  ArtistMichael Lane
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The entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was liberated by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945. The gates of hell: Auschwitz 75 years on The Nazi death camp...

The entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau, which was liberated by Soviet troops on 27 January 1945. The gates of hell: Auschwitz 75 years on The Nazi death camp where more than one million people perished was liberated on 27 January 1945. As one survivor, now aged 90, prepares to commemorate the date, she explains why the Holocaust must never be forgotten … especially in an age of rising antisemitism and nationalism. Renee 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 Kraków in German-occupied Poland, was by cattle truck, wedged in with hundreds of other Jews, no food, water or air for 24 hours. On arrival, the men were separated from women and children; Renee, who was born in Poland, never saw her father