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Escaping the ‘world’s biggest cemetery’

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Escaping the 'world's biggest cemetery'

When a fellow prisoner asked Anita Lasker-Wallfisch what she did before Auschwitz, Anita told her she played the cello. "Fantastic," the other prisoner said. "You'll be saved." Watch "Voices of Auschwitz" Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET.

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'Voices of Auschwitz' 10 videos

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Escaping the 'world's biggest cemetery'

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Drone video shows scale of Auschwitz camp

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Blitzer: You can smell the death

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Inside Poland's only Jewish school

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Being well-dressed saved his life

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'As long as my mind is working, I will tell this story'

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She lost 87 family members in the Holocaust

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How Steven Spielberg discovered his calling

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At age 10, she was a human guinea pig

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Dancing for "The Angel of Death'

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