When World War II broke out in 1939, Gajowniczek, now a sergeant, defended Wieluń — the first Polish city attacked by the ...

Eva Szepesi, 92, is traveling this week to the Nazi concentration camp she narrowly survived ... is one of the last survivors of Auschwitz alive today. Just 50 of them are expected to be present ...

Gyorgy Kun, a Hungarian Jew, was 12 when he stepped off the cattle car that delivered him and his family to Auschwitz in 1944 ...

Here Höss would create this concentration camp. The very first Auschwitz, which was later known as the Stammlager or Auschwitz 1. But when Höss first arrived in April 1940 few of these buildings ...

"Leave her alone." See "Voices of Auschwitz," a one-hour documentary marking the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, at CNNgo. The first time Tomas heard his mother ...

Two Queensbury sixth formers travelled to Auschwitz to learn more about what happened in the Nazi concentration and ...

Holocaust survivors shared their stories to protect us from forces that know the history and seek to repeat it. We must ...

Anita Lasker survived the Holocaust because, as a Berlin teenager, she had enjoyed her cello lessons. The Hungarian Lily ...

Majdanek and Auschwitz thus became multipurpose camps that functioned as concentration and labor camps as well as killing centers. They did make some efforts to conceal their genocide of the Jews ...

(JTA) — Police in Poland are investigating antisemitic vandalism at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial ... at the former concentration camp. In 2019, over 2 million people visited the museum ...