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 ...

One man's daring mission to infiltrate Auschwitz revealed its atrocities to the world – this is his story.

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.

But among the ruins and the selection lines, beneath the Arbeit ... Prisoner blocks in Auschwitz Birkenau. Credit: Joe Passmore The testimonies of survivors and the accounts of the bravery of ...

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 ...

In the second part of their visit, they saw the Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp, including the railway ramp where German doctors carried out a selection of Jews deported to the camp, determining who ...

Before the Nazis chose Oswiciem as the site of the infamous death camp, Jews thrived in the city for half a millennium. Now, ...

Auschwitz quickly became a potent symbol of the horrors of the Holocaust. Its notorious "selection process" for prisoners arriving at the camp's train platform determined life or death in mere ...