A severely emaciated man, who was “akin to a survivor of Auschwitz’s death camp” when he was rescued from a Connecticut house of horrors, managed to survive decades in captivity by drinking ...

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 ...

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 ...

György Kun was born on January 23 1932 in Vállaj, Hungary to Márton and Piroska Kuhn. Istvan was born 11 months later.The Kun ...

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 ...

This is Auschwitz-Birkenau, a place where the Nazis ... There was only one place she specifically asked to see: Sector 2, Section C, Block 30. “Six of us slept this way. Six of us slept that ...

A stranger’s kindness and pure luck saved Mindu Hornick’s life when she walked through the gates of Auschwitz. Article continues below Surviving Auschwitz and Neuengamme slave labour camp ...

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 ...

Turski survived the Lodz ghetto, where he and his family were forced to live, two death marches and imprisonment at the Nazi German concentration camps Buchenwald and Auschwitz-Birkenau ...

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 ...

Though when it comes to commemorating the horrifying magnitude of what happened at Auschwitz, every passing year — including this, the 80th anniversary — is of equal importance. Not least ...