Seventy-five years ago this month, Auschwitz—the largest
In the 1930s, Germany’s leader, Adolf Hitler, and his Nazi Party rose to power by tapping into
Auschwitz was the deadliest such camp. Most people sent there were killed upon arrival with poison gas. The rest were forced to do hard labor and often died of starvation or illness.
As forces fighting the Nazis neared Auschwitz in January 1945, the Nazis evacuated prisoners and destroyed evidence of their crimes.
Soldiers from the
Germany surrendered in May 1945. By then, the Nazis and their
Max Eisen’s family was murdered at Auschwitz. Eisen, who survived the camp, educates people about its horrors—and what everyone today can learn from the Holocaust. One of the most important lessons, he says: “Beware of hatred.”