She spent two years at Auschwitz ... knew about the Birkenau crematorium almost as soon as she arrived at the death camp. “At first, I thought it was used only to cremate bodies of people ...

The bodies were not only bloody but rotten as ... mortuaries that were part of new crematoria to be built at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The changes included the removal of a chute designed to slide ...

Several bodies at a time were burned in a single ... more than 380,000 of them were brought to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where most were gassed and cremated. When the demand for corpse disposal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Transported from her happy orthodox Jewish family near Prague in the former Czechoslovakia, via a ghetto, to Auschwitz-Birkenau ... grey ash from the burning bodies from the crematorium.

Some 80 years after the end of the Holocaust, there are fewer and fewer survivors to bear witness to their experiences. The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and Memorial in Poland is developing an exhibition ...

a Jewish prisoner who would tattoo ID numbers on prisoners' arms in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp during World War II. In the show, Sokolov is seen recounting his time to Morris.

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 ...

An Israeli high school student was detained by Polish police and fined for allegedly making a Nazi salute during a school trip to the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland, Hebrew media ...

The ceramic high voltage insulator was used as part of an electric fence that imprisoned people in the death-camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. It represents the barbarity of mankind when religion is ...