Some 33 years after the Nazi war criminal known as “the angel of death of Auschwitz” drowned in Brazil, (where he fled after World War II), 31 documents signed by Mengele and some 4,000 pages ...

A stranger’s kindness and pure luck saved Mindu Hornick’s life when she walked through the gates of Auschwitz. Article continues below Surviving Auschwitz and Neuengamme slave labour camp ...

At Auschwitz, by mid January 1945, the Nazis knew it would be only a matter of days before the Red Army arrived. What had been the biggest concentration and death camp in the whole of the Nazi ...

“Auschwitz, on our outskirts, is the symbol of the greatest evil,” Hertig said. “But at the same time we want to show to others that Oswiecim is a town with an 800-year history that wants to ...

Holocaust survivors have been marking 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, in Poland. Tova Friedman, 86, Leon Weintraub, 99, Marian Turski, 98, and Janina ...

"Auschwitz is unique," explains series producer and writer Lawrence Rees. "It has a physical beginning in May 1940 and physical ending in January 1945, and is the site of the single largest mass ...

Golda Meir, the future Israeli prime minister, wanted the United States and its allies to bomb Auschwitz, researchers have learned. NEW YORK (JTA) — Golda Meir, the future Israeli prime ...

The Auschwitz death camp lives in the Jewish mind ... This is why, when Matisyahu performed at the 2011 Oswiecim Life ...

This interactive map explores the complex and surprising evolution of Auschwitz, the scene of one of the worst crimes in human history. This was where more than a million men, women and children ...

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 ...