Upon arriving in Auschwitz, prisoners went through a sadistically gruesome “selection.” Most were sent straight to gas chambers — Auschwitz operated five gas chambers and crematoria at its ...

Renee Salt's memories of Auschwitz remain vivid, a haunting testament to the resilience of the human spirit in the shadow of unimaginable horror.

There may be another terrible destruction." Auschwitz quickly became a potent symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust. Its notorious "selection process" for prisoners arriving at the camp's train ...

In his 1947 memoir, Survival in Auschwitz (If This Is a Man), Primo Levi described how he was immediately subjected to the “selection” process on arriving at the camp in January 1944.

Auschwitz's "Angel of Death" who chose who was fit for camp labour and who was to be killed, Darvas, now 92, told Reuters. "During the selection, Mengele was misled by my short-cropped hair and ...