Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz. Recognized and remembered as the most prominent site of Nazi crimes, Auschwitz has had tremendous symbolic weight in the postwar world. This text is a history of the Auschwitz memorial site in the years of the Polish People's R[...]
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