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Headlines called the ranch an “extermination camp,” home to underground “crematoria and, even, the “Mexican Auschwitz.”

He said it was as if he had amnesia after leaving Auschwitz, where he did not return for 20 years.

Jewish women, brought from Auschwitz, were used for slave labour here to make parts for aeroplanes.

Under an enormous, white tent that covered the death camp entrance, the director of the Auschwitz museum, Piotr Cywinski, issued a plea to protect the memory of what had happened, as the survivors died out.

But what it became by 1942 is the Auschwitz that sits in our shared memory, for by now it was an extermination camp, whose main purpose was mass murder.