The five Christmas days at the German Nazi Auschwitz camp were full of tragic events. Despite the risk of punishments, prisoners observed Christmas⁠⁠ Eve.

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(Photo: A painting by a survivor Władysław Siwek. Roll-call & corpses under a Christmas tree in Auschwitz on Christmas Eve in 1940)

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