The house, until this year, had always been in private hands. A U.S.-based group, the "Counter Extremism Project," has ...

Auschwitz was established in 1940 and located ... Inmates were put into poorly structured wooden barracks with 36 bunks each. Incoming prisoners who were selected for forced labor received tattoos ...

A wooden sign with the word STOP stands in front of what was an electric barbed wire fence inside the former Nazi German ...

The anniversary has taken on added poignancy due to the advanced age of the survivors, and an awareness that they will soon ...

Fürst, now 92, is returning to Auschwitz for the 80th anniversary of the liberation ... with other inmates of the German KZ ...

That creates risks: the Holocaust didn’t begin with mass murder. The dehumanization of Jews progressed gradually from public ...

Auschwitz was originally a Polish army barracks in southern Poland. Nazi Germany invaded and occupied Poland in September 1939, and by May 1940 turned the site into a jail for political prisoners.

From the windows of the house in which the infamous commandant of Auschwitz lived, one can still see the barracks of the ...

Overlooking a gas chamber and a crematorium at Auschwitz, a large house inhabited by the Nazi death camp's commandant is to ...

At Auschwitz, the Germans left behind barracks and watchtowers, the remains of gas chambers and the hair and personal belongings of people killed there. The “Arbeit macht frei” (work will set ...

WARSAW, Poland — The world's focus will be on the remaining survivors of Nazi Germany's atrocities on Monday as world leaders and royalty join them for commemorations on the 80th anniversary of ...