The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the ...
Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today. Sometimes the only sounds are the soft footsteps of visitors, people ...
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In all, the Nazi regime murdered 6 million Jews from all over Europe, annihilating two-thirds of Europe's Jews and one-third ...
OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the ...
“It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return to Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Elderly camp survivors, some wearing striped scarves that recall their prison uniforms, walked to the the Death Wall, where ...
The German authorities founded the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in the Polish town of Oswiecim after their invasion of Poland in 1939. Early on it was a camp for Polish prisoners ...
Image: The so-called 'Gate of Death', the main entrance to Auschwitz-Birkenau, as it looked in 1945. Pic: AP Image: Children who were liberated from the concentration camp in 1945. Pic ...
The war would turn brutal and sinister, especially for Poland's Jews ... they were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp instead," he said. Schindler hurried to Auschwitz to rescue his women ...