A man walks past the ''Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) gate at the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim ...

On the 80th anniversary of this liberation, these photos ... Poland. During its first year, authorities cleared 15 square miles for the camp. Source: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ...

run outside the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) × ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today ... The Hearst Foundations has awarded the Seattle Art Museum with a grant.

During World War II, men, women and children were transported from across Europe to Auschwitz-Birkenau, horrendous journeys in which they were packed into cramped cattle cars. They arrived onto an ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — During World War II ... are abandoned but still exist within the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, stark reminders of the industrial nature of the killing.

run outside the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau in Oswiecim, Poland, Thursday, Jan. 23. 2025. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty) Old railroad tracks once used to transport Jews and others from across ...

Many of those rail tracks are abandoned but still exist within the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, stark reminders ... Oswiecim — the name of the Polish town that was called ...