Ahead of participation in state Yom Hashoah ceremony, 96-year-old who beat Auschwitz and two other camps says, 'We must tell our story and keep memory alive'

Opening Jan. 27 at the Illinois Holocaust Museum in Chicago, 'The Journey Back' puts participants in the narrators' shoes as they hear their tales of suffering and survival

Gusen camp, a satellite of Mauthausen complex, neglected by Austrian authorities, Warsaw charges; some 35,800 detainees, many Polish, died there

Warsaw says contemporary housing developments and business firms that cover a part of Mauthausen-Gusen do not befit its nature, victims included tens of thousands of Poles

A study released on Holocaust Remembrance Day shows 'appalling lack of knowledge' about the genocide even while Austrians overestimate their country's role in saving Jews