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Franciszek Piper

Polish historian

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Oct 19, 2025
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Has the Holocaust death toll at Auschwitz been reduced

The consensus of Holocaust scholarship holds that Auschwitz deportations and killings totalled roughly , a figure reached by long‑term archival research and not by a sudden recent “reduction” . Earlie...

Jan 15, 2026

What are the most significant archival discoveries about Auschwitz since 1990 and how did they change the camp's death toll estimates?

Significant archival work beginning around 1990—most notably the publication of Franciszek Piper’s research for the Auschwitz Museum and the release/analysis of camp documentation—prompted a major rev...