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Nate Liepciger holds the attention of rapt students in one of the barracks
in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Born in Poland in 1928,
he survived the Sosnowiec Ghetto and the camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where he was a former inmate. He told students that each day was a struggle for survival. Prisoners were housed in barracks that were not insulated from the heat or cold. Prisoners were allowed to use the primitive latrine only once daily. A barrack held as many as 500 inmates who were squeezed five or six across into wooden bunks.
