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Cultural Favourites from the Archives – Letters That Changed The World

Intelligence Squared

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The Death of a Man, by Wilmer Grunwald

This is one of the very few letters that were actually smuggled out of the death camps, all the labor camps run by the Nazis in World War II during the Holocaust. The Grunwald family, a doctor, his wife, and his two children, arrived at Auschwitz in 1944,. When they went to the selection process on the railway station at Auschwitz, they faced the appalling judgment of Joseph Mengele who made the selections.

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