This Holocaust Memorial Day, which fell on the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a lot has been said ...

At Treblinka, an estimated 850,000 Jews were murdered, and Sobibor, Belzec, Majdanek and Chelmno made up the network of camps built purely for extermination. Since the end of World War Two ...

But in Russia today there is a discernible shift in focus, away from the Holocaust to how the Soviet people as a whole, including Russian people, suffered in World War Two. More than 27 million Soviet ...

The slaughter was carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination camps, chiefly at Auschwitz-Birkenau, but also Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied ...

The other was a high-level, international event marking the tenth anniversary of the dedication of the vast memorial at the site of the Nazi death camp at Belzec, on the Ukrainian border in ...