Kazimierz Smolen(1920-2012)

Passed away on the 67th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp where he was imprisoned during World War II. After his liberation he became the director of the memorial site that was opened by the Polish government.

[on surviving Auschwitz] Sometimes when I think about it. I feel it may be some kind of sacrifice, some kind of obligation I have for having survived.