Gyorgy Kun, a Hungarian Jew, was 12 when he stepped off the cattle car that delivered him and his family to Auschwitz in 1944 ...

A New Orleans-area group decries the state’s efforts to use nitrogen gas to execute death row inmates because, members say, ...

Kun and his brother Istvan survived Auschwitz in part due to the fact that Dr. Mengele believed them to be twins and thus ...

A horrifying documentary about the work of the Sonderkommandos, the Jewish prisoners ordered to cremate the bodies of those Jews murdered in the Auschwitz gas chambers. For the first time since ...

Article continues below Surviving Auschwitz and Neuengamme slave labour ... Those not viewed as useful were sent straight to the gas chambers. “A lady in front of us had a daughter about our ...

Those who were deemed to be losing weight too quickly were sent to the gas chamber, Susan recalls. Image: Prisoners from Hungary arrive at the Auschwitz concentration camp in spring 1945.

Historical Background Auschwitz, located in Poland, stands as a chilling testament to one of humanity's darkest chapters.

Throughout there was haunting and moving music by composers such as James Simon, a German Jew who was murdered in an Auschwitz gas chamber. His “Lament” set the tone for the evening.