Surviving Auschwitz

Erzsebet Brodt, 89: Brodt was 17 years old when she and her family were sent to Auschwitz. Her mother, father, and two siblings died in the camp. Remembering the journey there, Brodt says that those who were "sick or about to give birt

(REUTERS/Laszlo Balogh)Recently, some of the now-elderly survivors of the camp posed for Reuters photographers as they held portraits of their past. Here are their stories. 

Stefan Sot, 83: Sot, who was registered with camp number 192705, holds a picture of himself at 13 years old. During the Warsaw Uprising in August 1944, Sot was sent from his home to a camp in Pruszkow, before being sent on by train to

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Jacek Nadolny, 77: Nadolny holds a wartime photo of his family. A train took 7-year-old Nadolny and his family to Auschwitz during the Warsaw Uprising. In January 1945, the family was moved to a labor camp in Berlin.

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Barbara Doniecka, 80: Doniecka holds a photo of herself at 12 years old; that was the age when she and her mother were sent first to Pruszkow camp, and then on to Auschwitz.

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Jadwiga Bogucka (maiden name Regulska), 89: Bogucka, then 19-years-old, and her mother were sent from their house to a camp in Pruszkow, then moved on August 12, 1944, by train to Auschwitz.

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Bogdan Bartnikowski, 82: Bartnikowski was 12 years old during the Warsaw Uprising, when he and his mother were sent to Auschwitz. They were moved between camps several times. After the war, Bartnikowski worked as a pilot and then becam

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Maria Stroinska, 82: Stroinska holds a family photo taken before the war. Stroinska was 12 years old during the Warsaw Uprising, when she and her sister were sent from their house to a camp in Pruszkow. Stroinska was then moved alone b

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