Cornell Law School professor Menachem Rosensaft will present a reading of his searing new poetic work, Burning Psalms: ...

By the early spring of 1943, four huge crematoria became fully operational at Auschwitz II (Birkenau). They housed eight gas chambers and forty-six ovens that could dispose of some 4,400 corpses ...

Hoss and his SS comrades saw this as a step forward in the killing process at Auschwitz. Two separate gas chambers were quickly improvised by bricking up the windows and door and creating two new ...

On May 25, Dr. Greiff said, two more ex-Auschwitz officers will go on trial. One, Wilhelm Burger, will be charged with having procured the Zyclon-B gas used in the Birke au gas chambers for ...

At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal ...

The picture shows a group of women enjoying blueberries next to a man, smiling. Another man poses at the back, playing an accordion. The image is one of 116 photos in an album that belonged to an ...

The journey for the parentless children lasted two days and nights before it ended at Auschwitz. They were then taken from the train ramp to the gas chambers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where they were ...

While she was sent to the gas chamber, they went to the barracks that ... Mr. Kun arrived at Auschwitz, the Nazi killing center in occupied Poland, at the outset of the camp’s deadliest period.

At the gates of Auschwitz, prisoners were marched to work at 5.30 a.m., and home again in the evening, often carrying the corpses of ...

More than 1.1 million people died in these camps' barracks, hospitals, gas chambers and labor fields. Travelers say the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum is one of Europe's best preserved ...