Eighty years ago, on January 27, 1945, Soviet forces liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. Over the following weeks and months, French survivors of the camps returned to their homeland. A third of them passed through the Hotel Lutetia in Paris, a luxury hotel taken over by the French state to host former prisoners. Many families went to Lutetia, hoping to find out whether their loved ones had returned. FRANCE 24’s Stephanie Trouillard and Claire Bacalin spoke to camp survivors who passed by the hotel, as well as to the daughter of a man who died in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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