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Nazi death camp art on show at Auschwitz museum

WARSAW (AP).- Photos of 20 drawings and other artifacts clandestinely made by inmates at Nazi death camps during World War II are on show at the Auschwitz museum and are to travel next to the United States, an official said Tuesday. A museum spokesman, Pawel Sawicki, said that the “Forbidden Art” exhibition is on display at the former camp bath building at Auschwitz I, the original, red brick part of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp. Large color pictures show drawings and sculptures made by inmates of Auschwitz and of the Buchenwald and Ravensbrueck German Nazi concentration camps. More than 1 million people, mostly Jews, died at Auschwitz that the Nazi Germans ran in occupied Poland between 1940-45. In Ravensbrueck, in north Germany, most among some 130,000 inmates from across Europe, were Polish. No more than 32,000 survived. Some 56,000 inmates are believed to have died at Buchenwald,