The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has ...

Auschwitz was established in 1940 and located ... Inmates were put into poorly structured wooden barracks with 36 bunks each. Incoming prisoners who were selected for forced labor received tattoos ...

A wooden sign with the word STOP stands in front of what was an electric barbed wire fence inside the former Nazi German ...

The anniversary has taken on added poignancy due to the advanced age of the survivors, and an awareness that they will soon ...

That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public ...

Fürst, now 92, is returning to Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of the liberation ... with other inmates of the German KZ ...

Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest Nazi German extermination camp during the Nazi era. At least 1.1 million people were ...

Auschwitz prisoner Primo Levi, describing his Soviet liberators. Monday is the 80th anniversary of the liberation of ...

In just over four-and-a-half years, Nazi Germany systematically murdered at least 1.1 million people at Auschwitz, built in ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today ... an anniversary being marked at the site on ...

From the windows of the house in which the infamous commandant of Auschwitz lived, one can still see the barracks of the ...

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 ...