When World War II broke out in 1939, Gajowniczek, now a sergeant, defended Wieluń — the first Polish city attacked by the ...

Living in Auschwitz was a physical and mental torture for a woman. Daily life consisted of endless workdays with no real respite. Any excuse was an opportunity for the SS to humiliate or torture them.

Holocaust survivors shared their stories to protect us from forces that know the history and seek to repeat it. We must ...

The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and ...

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

In the concentration camps, Jewish prisoners ... had barely any memory of normal life outside of the barbed wire. In the months that followed the liberation of Auschwitz, emaciated prisoners ...

The majority of those surveyed in nine of the 10 countries believed that the Holocaust could happen, with only Romania ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Auschwitz survivors warned Monday of ... and European royalty on the 80th anniversary of the death camp’s liberation. In all, 56 survivors gathered under a huge tent ...

A sign being held at Begin Gate in Tel Aviv, reminiscent of the sign over the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp, reading ... “We wanted to affirm Jewish life, as terrible as ...

The film, commissioned by Sky Arts, commemorates the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the concentration camp from the Nazis. Over one million people were killed at Auschwitz as the horrors of ...