Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the ...

These were the horrific scenes that met the Soviet 60th Army of the First Ukrainian Front as they opened the gates of ...

The villa of Rudolf Höss, Auschwitz’s longest-serving commandant, is being transformed into a research centre dedicated to ...

They can, however, function as a warning from history that we must never forget – a message especially relevant as the world ...

In a fraught moment in the film “A Real Pain,” Kieran Culkin, playing the more volatile of a pair of Jewish cousins who go on ...

West Palm Beach centenarian Franklin Simon, who celebrated his 100th birthday in June, served heroically in Europe during ...

An exclusive interview with Auschwitz survivor and award-winning photographer Ryszard Horowitz, on his extraordinary life and ...

Jan. 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Books, movies and other entertainment on World War II and the Holocaust oversimplify what really happened under Nazi rule, a Holocaust educator ...

A Holocaust survivor who lived through four concentration camps will return to Auschwitz to mark 80 years since liberation of ...

The Lost Music of Auschwitz' and 'The Last Musician of Auschwitz' air in commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camp where more than 1.1 million people lost their lives.

Shira Klein, chair of the history department at Chapman University, said there is a popular misconception about Italy’s ...