Dominik Mysterio stated "You think this is a game to me? I served hard time. And I survived” before pictures of the camp flashed on screen.
Israeli high schoolers are known to party hard on these school-sponsored and supervised visits to Poland to visit Holocaust memorial sites.
Jewish people lived in Poland for centuries until the Holocaust obliterated their numbers.
Van Sise is far from the first photographer to capture the faces of survivors in the decades following the end of the Second World War.
Project by International March of the Living, in partnership with Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation and Auschwitz Memorial
Why designate a holiday for remembrance of the Holocaust? Because in the bleak history of genocide, the Holocaust is singular in its evil.