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 ...

After being sent to the Nazi death camp in 1943, Anita Lasker survived by playing in its women's orchestra. In 1996, she ...

And much was done to preserve the household’s tranquility, given its immediate neighbor: the largest and most notorious Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz. Inside the family home, Rudolf Höss ...

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 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 ...