György Kun was born on January 23 1932 in Vállaj, Hungary to Márton and Piroska Kuhn. Istvan was born 11 months later.The Kun ...
In the months that followed the liberation of Auschwitz, emaciated prisoners in camps across Europe were told that they were, finally, free. Just a few months later in April 1945, it was British ...
Szepesi, who grew up in Slovakia and now lives in Frankfurt, Germany, is one of the last survivors of Auschwitz alive today. Just 50 of them are expected to be present on Monday at the camp in ...
HAIFA, Israel — Naftali Fürst will never forget his first view of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, on Nov. 3, 1944. He was 12 years old. SS soldiers threw open the doors of the cattle ...
Some of the few remaining survivors of Auschwitz returned to the notorious Nazi death camp on Monday as the world marked the 80th anniversary of its liberation. Auschwitz was the largest of the ...
Mr Turski survived the Lodz Ghetto, extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau and two death marches as a teenager.
It was the last message his son Wolfgang would ever receive from his father What Alfred didn't know was that Westerbork was a camp whose inmates were to be transported to Auschwitz. Wolfgang would ...
At every turn of this sprawling, desolate prison, death stares you in the face. Auschwitz did not just fall from the sky. It was a plan hatched by history’s most wicked minds, a network of ...
A stranger’s kindness and pure luck saved Mindu Hornick’s life when she walked through the gates of Auschwitz. Surviving Auschwitz and Neuengamme slave labour camp, now 95, it took 40 years ...
World leaders and survivors mark the 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation, reminding us to prevent hatred from leading to genocide. Polish police patrols along the fences of Auschwitz ...
Holocaust survivors have been marking 80 years since the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, in Poland. Tova Friedman, 86, Leon Weintraub, 99, Marian Turski, 98, and Janina ...