A new book focuses on the desperate letters written by many Jews seeking refuge in the Netherlands but who were denied entry ...

Photos donated to a Hungarian archive reveal the devastating aftermath of the siege of Budapest, which ended 80 years ago.

Victor Klemperer was an eyewitness to the Dresden bombings at the end of World War II, on February 13 and 14, 1945. The renowned scholar wrote what became known as the most vivid description of the ...

The story of the relationship between Hitler and Bernile had been generally unknown until the Alexander Historical Auction House auctioned this photograph to an anonymous, international buyer for a wi ...

Entries are not arranged chronologically but by county, and within county by local government areas (many of which have changed since 1945). The lists are then alphabetical by surname and give details ...

Out of necessity, then, the National Socialists had to derive most of their financing via membership fees, storm troopers ...

On January 27, 1945, Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz concentration camp and liberated the prisoners from the Nazi regime’s horrific crimes. This day is now observed as International Holocaust ...

Eighty years ago on January 27, 1945, soldiers from Russia's Red Army entered the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and were the first to discover the horrors of the concentration camp where ...

Public domain via Wikimedia Commons When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the soldiers encountered unimaginable horrors ...

Eighty years ago on January 27, 1945, soldiers from Russia's Red Army entered the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and were the first to discover the horrors of the concentration camp where more ...

Itka Zygmuntowicz (1926–2020), Survivor of Auschwitz Birkenau German Nazi Concentration and Death Camp (1940–1945) RG-50.030*0435, Oral history interview with Itka Zygmuntowicz, (1926-2020).

On the morning of 27 January 1945 the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps still held some 7,000 prisoners. Over a million people deported to Auschwitz perished there. It is estimated that six million Jews were ...