#Auschwitz was an enormous factory of death. It is the place where more people were killed than any other in history. Even now, nearly three generations later, it is almost impossible to grasp the scale on which the Nazis committed homicide there. The number of Jews killed in Auschwitz between March 1942 and January 1945 was greater than the entire present-day population of Austin, Texas, or San Francisco. If, beginning today, you were to observe 1 consecutive minute of silence for each of those whose lives were destroyed, you would not speak again until the middle of December 2026. By 1944, Germany was transporting Jews to their deaths at such a furious rate that the train platform in Birkenau had become the busiest railway station in Europe. It held that distinction despite the fact that, unlike every other train station in the world, there were only arrivals. No passengers ever departed. @BostonGlobe
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