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Angela Richt has never been back to her birthplace.

For many years, she has stared at the location on her birth certificate, remembering her anger at having to write it out during a school lesson when she was just six years old.

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Auschwitz.

Even now, 70 years later, the word fills her with dread, conjuring images of war and the worst kind of human indignity. Knowing what her Hungarian Jewish family suffered at the hands of the Nazis in the world’s most notorious concentration camp, she never felt compelled to return.

But this week, Richt is doing just that, flying to Poland to stand among other survivors on Tuesday as they mark seven decades since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The trip was initially offered to her stepbrother, but he is 90 and already travels to the camp — which now serves as a museum and memorial — once a year for the annual March of the Living. Two trips in 2015 would have been too much, Richt explained.