First, Cohen, with a tour group from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, passed through the infamous “Arbeit Macht ...

Try to imagine this. You are hired to preserve piles of shoes left behind by murdered children. Not just dozens of children, not hundreds, not even thousands. These shoes remain from more than a ...

My father had entered Auschwitz the previous spring, together with his parents, his two brothers, and two of his three sisters. They, too, were gone by the time the camp was liberated. Unlike my ...

At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal belongings of people killed there. The “Arbeit macht frei” (work will set you free ...

LONDON - Around 50 survivors and dozens of world leaders attended memorial events at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau ...

On the 80th anniversary of its liberation, survivors of the Holocaust gathered at the extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Of the more than six million Jews murdered by the Nazis, 1.1 ...

How can there be music in the worst place in the world? The story of how inmates of Auschwitz performed and composed music as a lifeline and a way to resist. Show more How can there be music in ...

It was 1944, and the teenager, her mother and her father had just arrived at the Auschwitz concentration camp and extermination centre in German-occupied Poland, after being rounded up with other ...

Polish-born Auschwitz survivor Tova Friedman ... Then they shaved all our hair, quite often with painful skin removal. “We the survivors, we understand that the consequence of being considered ...

A shaved head and a head with hair are two completely different heads,” Iwanska said. As Red Army troops approached the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp from the east, Nazi soldiers attempted to cover up ...

It was the greatest tragedy of the Holocaust. In just five years, over one million people were murdered at Auschwitz, the largest and deadliest Nazi concentration camp. Auschwitz was established ...