children and babies — were gassed to death soon after their arrival. Altogether the Germans murdered 6 million Jews, or two-thirds of all of Europe's Jews, in the Holocaust at Auschwitz and ...

Some of the last living survivors spoke of worrying signs that safeguards of “never again” are falling away while antisemitism rises.

the Soviet Red Army liberated survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi extermination camp in the Silesian region of southern Poland. The arrival of the Allies gave the world its first real ...

"If you aren't sent straight to the gas chamber on arrival, you don't survive long in Auschwitz anyway — three months at most." Her musical skills gave her the chance to survive. "There were a ...

On the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, 98-year-old survivor Marian Turski addresses the commemoration in Poland.

This is Auschwitz-Birkenau, a place where the Nazis treated people like animals caged in by electrified barbed wire, where ...

Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting choice of residence, given the most famous feature of the town is its proximity ...

at Auschwitz and on to their deaths in the new camp. Soon trains would arrive at Birkenau at a specially constructed ramp, a short distance away from two gas chambers, and at one point 12,000 Jews ...

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum says it expects ... children and babies — were gassed to death soon after their arrival. A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in ...