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

Alex Bruner spent years ushering “Cold Crematorium” to publication. It made the New York Times “10 Best Books of 2024” list.

The largest camp in the entire system of Nazi concentration and extermination camps, where more than 1 million people ...

Birkenau's liberation, honoring victims and those who helped prisoners from the three camps once located near Oswiecim town, ...

Oswiecim has more than eight centuries of history, and some are growing resentful that the world knows little about them ...

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 you ...

Some tourists choose to visit sites where tragedies have occurred such as Chernobyl, Hiroshima and the killing fields in Cambodia ...

Israel was on the brink of war and Yehudit served in the Haganah as a medic. She would have liked to have become a nurse but that was impossible in her circumstances.

Kathrin Meyer, departing cretary-general of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, said she considers Holocaust ...

On Jan. 27, 1945, 80 years ago, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz, uncovering the depths of human depravity.

Like the border wall, building a detention center for migrants in Guantanamo Bay is nothing new. The scale, though, is ...