Gyorgy Kun, a Hungarian Jew, was 12 when he stepped off the cattle car that delivered him and his family to Auschwitz in 1944 ...

Kun and his brother Istvan survived Auschwitz in part due to the fact that Dr. Mengele believed them to be twins and thus ...

Article continues below Surviving Auschwitz and Neuengamme slave labour ... Those not viewed as useful were sent straight to the gas chambers. “A lady in front of us had a daughter about our ...

Historical Background Auschwitz, located in Poland, stands as a chilling testament to one of humanity's darkest chapters.

Those who were deemed to be losing weight too quickly were sent to the gas chamber, Susan recalls. Image: Prisoners from Hungary arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp in spring 1945.

A horrifying documentary about the work of the Sonderkommandos, the Jewish prisoners ordered to cremate the bodies of those Jews murdered in the Auschwitz gas chambers. For the first time since ...

Anita Lasker survived the Holocaust because, as a Berlin teenager, she had enjoyed her cello lessons. The Hungarian Lily ...

One Auschwitz survivor insisted her daughter ... more than one million people had been killed. They died in gas chambers, in mass executions, as a result of torture and horrifying medical ...

More than 1.1 million people died in these camps' barracks, hospitals, gas chambers and labor fields. Travelers say the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum is one of Europe's best preserved ...