'Have courage, I’ll see you soon': Blanche, 13, wrote in her letter thrown from the train headed to Auschwitz concentration camp. Only 51 would survive the concentration camps. They would have been packed into sealed cattle cars to be transported east towards the concentration camps in Nazi-occupied Poland*. When you think of the legacy of the Holocaust, your mind probably goes to the sites of the camps: Auschwitz, Dachau, perhaps the memorial in Berlin. *This article was amended on March 5th, 2026 to refer to “concentration camps in Nazi-occupied Poland” rather than “Polish concentration camps” as stated in an earlier version.

Source: The Irish Times March 05, 2026 14:31 UTC