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After more than two decades, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s notorious outdoor Tent City Jail will close.

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The pile stretches over several square yards and in some places the shoes and clothing, some of which belonged to children, were stacked a foot deep.

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Prosecutors admitted the woman wasn't directly involved in the mass killings, but also pointed out her contributions to the overall operations of the camp.

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With temperatures topping 100 and several people fainting while waiting in line at the memorial, management decided to provide a simple means of cooling.

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The first time Eva Kor tried to approach the man, he turned pale and fainted while holding onto her, nearly bringing them both to the ground, but the second encounter was much different.

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More than 100 portraits drawn by Franciszek Jaźwiecki are housed at the Auschwitz-Birkenau museum as part of a more than 2,ooo-piece gallery of art created by prisoners in Nazi concentration camps.

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“It means a lot to us,” said Eva Wittenburg. “And it would have made my father very happy to know that the world has been told that there once was a good man named Samuel Gottschall who lived with his family in Presov and was killed during the war.”

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The gate displayed the phrase “Arbeit macht frei," or "Work sets you free," and remained at the camp, which is now a memorial, as a symbol for what the prisoners endured.

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While incarcerated in a German POW camp in 1940, French World War II prisoners painstakingly pieced together a rudimentary 8mm camera – hidden cleverly inside a hollowed-out dictionary – and then used it to document their escape. The camera was smuggled into the camp, piece by piece, via sausages. The German’s only cut the food […]

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