OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Oded Balilty started with the AP as a freelancer in Jerusalem in ...

Over 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz, including nearly a million Jews. On the day of liberation 80 years ago, ...

This seemingly ordinary house next door serves as a chilling reminder of "just how close heaven can be to hell on earth." ...

Most of them were Jews, but countless thousands were Roma and Sinti, people with disabilities, homosexuals, politicial ...

The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has purchased it. Now, in conjunction with the Auschwitz Museum and UNESCO, they have ...

All that was about to change. The crucial reason for the transformation of Auschwitz was simple—its location. The area around the camp was rich in natural resources. This part of Poland ...

On January 27, King Charles, 76, traveled to Poland to visit the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration ... from those who bore witness in the very location where they took place," the palace source ...

On the 27th January 1945, Soviet soldiers opened the gates of Auschwitz Concentration Camp, liberating more than 7,000 ...

Shortly after construction, Auschwitz-Birkenau became the largest killing center and central location for the extermination of Jews in Europe. In 1942, two farmhouses just outside the camp were ...