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Auschwitz: siete testigos del horror: se cumplen 60 años de la liberación del campo de exterminio. Tras sus muros, también hubo comportamientos heroicos.(Imre Kertesz, Pierre Marie Benoit, Paul Célan, Primo Levi, Edith Stein, Maximilian Kolbe, Ala Gertner)

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NO hacía un frío excesivo para aquella hora, cinco de la mañana, y aquella fecha, 27 de enero de 1945, pero cuando los soldados de la División de Infantería número 322 del Ejército Rojo abrieron la verja, a todos les invadió un electrizante escalofrío. Acababan de entrar en Auschwitz, la palabra que con sólo pronunciarse estremece porque sus letras envuelven la agonía de un millón y medio de hombres, mujeres y niños.

Auschwitz no era un lager, un campo de concentración, sino muchos, y se asentaba en lo que antes de la guerra era la localidad polaca de Oswiecim, a 65 kilómetros al oeste de Cracovia. Los alemanes lo eligieron por su ubicación, cerca de las principales líneas de ferrocarril y de la confluencia de los ríos Sola y Vístula, y porque cuando llegaron a Oswiecim, entonces un pueblo de 12.000 habitantes, había allí unos cuarteles del Ejército polaco que les parecieron útiles.

En 1940 le cambiaron el nombre a Oswiecim, lo llamaron Auschwitz, y convirtieron los ...

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