81. In reality it was a way station for Jews and other prisoners headed to the death camp at Auschwitz. 82. In the center of the hall is a flat stone under which lies the cremated remains of victims of six Polish death camps. 83. It also has maps, sample documents and a chapter covering the archival holdings at the former Auschwitz and Maidanek death camps. 84. Instead, it follows the teen-ager into the Nazi death camps where, like millions of other Jews, she endured incredible suffering and succumbed to a miserable death. 85. It credits Pope Pius XII with saving hundreds of thousands of Jews, but avoids mentioning criticism of his public silence on the death camps. 86. It says it has evidence he was a guard at the Sobibor death camp. 87. It was the largest death camp in Europe, responsible for killing millions of people. 88. It was the first time that the bank has acknowledged a financing role in the death camp. 89. It was also the transit point to the death camps for over half a million Jews. 90. It was the older Hasidim, many of them survivors of the death camps, who were surprisingly cooperative, perhaps because they want their stories told. |