The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and ...

The Nazis murdered 1.1 million people at Auschwitz-Birkenau between 1941 and 1945 ... said "remembrance is not only a moral act, it's a call to action", and warned that Holocaust denial was ...

When the Red Army liberated the Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau on January 27, 1945, the soldiers encountered unimaginable horrors, including mass graves, the ...

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, living survivors, their families and communities are marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau ... were heroes. We call them the righteous ...

Historical Background Auschwitz, located in Poland, stands as a chilling testament to one of humanity's darkest chapters. Established in 1940 by Nazi Germany, it became the largest of the ...

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum says it expects about 50 survivors of Auschwitz and other camps to attend the events on Monday afternoon, joined by political leaders and royalty. On this ...

Eventually, those who survived this ordeal reached concentration camps in Germany and Austria, and so began again the routines of roll call ... and death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Lauder, representing major donors to the memorial site, and historian Piotr Cywiński, director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Five years ago, Poland’s president Andrzej Duda was the ...

crushing concentration and extermination camps of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau are located in the city of Oswiecim. More than 1.1 million people died in these camps' barracks, hospitals ...

“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.

E ighty 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 ...

"We will not give in to anti-Semitism in all its forms," Macron wrote in the guest book, before leaving to attend a large commemoration event at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.