Hila Weisz-Gut, a 34-year-old Israeli, is sure her Auschwitz survivor grandmother would be outraged by her choice to move to Oswiecim, a Polish town in which Nazi Germany built the death camp.

Höss was travelling to the outskirts of the town of Auschwitz. In the midst of territory snatched by Hitler during his invasion of Poland the previous year. Here Höss would create this ...

Established in 1940 as a holding camp for political prisoners in occupied Poland, Auschwitz (the German name for the town of Oświęcim) evolved into the largest and most notorious Nazi ...

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 ...

Zofia Szalek, a German residing in the Polish town of Chelmno ... effective and efficient technique developed for killing at Auschwitz depended on the same pesticide that was used to kill the ...

(JTA) — Barely 200 yards from the former Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, visitors can now purchase ice cream, prompting disgust from commemoration officials and local residents. Since early May ...

A 42-mile trip west of Kraków, the brutal, crushing concentration and extermination camps of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau are located in the city of Oswiecim. More than 1.1 million ...

World leaders and survivors mark the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation, reminding us to prevent hatred from leading to genocide. Polish police patrols along the fences of Auschwitz ...

While working at an Auschwitz satellite forced labor camp in the town of Gleiwitz, he met a Jewish girl who worked in the camp and was able to return to her home at night. The girl, Marianne ...