Snow covers railroad tracks that were once used to transport Jews from across Europe to Auschwitz, the Nazi German extermination and labor camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, on Jan. 23. 2025.

For years, they could not speak about the Holocaust. Teenagers Ruth Cohen, Steven Fenves, and Irene Weiss were deported in crowded cattle cars to Auschwitz-Birkenau with 430,000 other Jews from ...