One of them was a 12-year-old girl who died after being beaten by a guard.
One of them was a 12-year-old girl who died after being beaten by a guard.
Auschwitz, the largest Nazi mass extermination camp, was built in Poland by the German occupiers.
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Polish prosecutors want the 97-year-old woman to face charges for crimes against humanity.
Edyta Gawron
The former Nazi German concentration camp in Kraków featured in the film Schindler’s List.
Parts of the former camp complex, where thousands of Poles were imprisoned and killed, have “turned into places unworthy of commemoration”.