Auschwitz photo children reunited on 70th anniversary of liberation

Survivors: Miriam Ziegler, 79, Paula Lebovics, 81, Gabor Hirsch, 85, and Eva Mozes Kor, 80
Survivors: Miriam Ziegler, 79, Paula Lebovics, 81, Gabor Hirsch, 85, and Eva Mozes Kor, 80
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Four Auschwitz survivors have been brought together for the first time since an iconic photograph was taken of them as children behind the barbed wire of the Nazi death camp liberated 70 years ago.

The four have gone on to lead full lives since the Nazi regime tried to wipe out their families, in a remarkable triumph of the human spirit against the horrors of the Holocaust.

One, 80-year-old Eva Mozes Kor, a survivor of Dr Josef Mengele’s repulsive experiments on twins at Auschwitz, has controversially gone further than most survivors by unconditionally forgiving the Nazis.

The quartet were reunited by the Shoah Foundation, the US organisation founded by Steven Spielberg to build an archive of Holocaust memories, which this year finally identified all the