Historical Background Auschwitz, located in Poland, stands as a chilling testament to one of humanity's darkest chapters. Established in 1940 by Nazi Germany, it became the largest of the ...

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, living survivors, their families and communities are marking the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Ida Kersz was separated from her family ...

A 42-mile trip west of Kraków, the brutal, crushing concentration and extermination camps of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau are located in the city of Oswiecim. More than 1.1 million ...

The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and ...

Merrill Eisenhower will join Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Polish President Andrzej Duda alongside 80 Holocaust survivors, some of whom were liberated by U.S. and Allied forces led by his ...

(JTA) — Police in Poland are investigating antisemitic vandalism at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum. Spray-painted slogans in English and German, some of them “antisemitic in nature ...

The ceramic high voltage insulator was used as part of an electric fence that imprisoned people in the death-camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. It represents the barbarity of mankind when religion is ...

Through the wagon I could see SS Men with dogs, barbed wire, electric fences. We’d arrived in Birkenau, Auschwitz. And they said “Men on one side, Women and children on the other side”.

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