The anniversary has taken on added poignancy due to the advanced age of the survivors, and an awareness that they will soon ...

SS soldiers threw open the doors of the cattle car, where he was crammed in with his mother, father, brother, and more than ...

The Roma Family Camp massacre was part of the broader Nazi genocide of Roma people, known in the Romani language as the ...

Last witnesses of the “catastrophe of humanity” which was conducted by the Nazis in World War II fell silent in prayer as ...

Some of the last living survivors spoke of worrying signs that safeguards of “never again” are falling away while ...

It held that distinction despite the fact that, unlike every other train station in the world, there were only arrivals. No passengers ever departed. Auschwitz was not only a place of murder.

Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting ...

With the world marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp by Soviet troops on 27 January here is its history, ...

It was 80 years ago that Soviet troops liberated the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Some of the last survivors will be joined by world leaders on Monday, to commemorate the 1.1 million ...

at Auschwitz and on to their deaths in the new camp. Soon trains would arrive at Birkenau at a specially constructed ramp, a short distance away from two gas chambers, and at one point 12,000 Jews ...

and babies — were gassed to death soon after their arrival. Altogether, the Germans murdered 6 million Jews, or two-thirds of all of Europe’s Jews, in the Holocaust at Auschwitz and other ...