A severely emaciated man, who was “akin to a survivor of Auschwitz’s death camp” when he was rescued from a Connecticut house ...
Kun and his brother Istvan survived Auschwitz in part due to the fact that Dr. Mengele believed them to be twins and thus ...
Once they arrived at Auschwitz, the Red Army and the Polish Red Cross worked to provide food and medical care to the emaciated survivors. Upon seeing Auschwitz, Soviet General Vasily Petrenko ...
Here There are Blueberries” examines the horror of casual photos of Nazis enjoying their downtime at Auschwitz.
Security guards spotted member of group from Kiryat Bialik high school with arm raised; companion asserts he was just waving ...
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 ...
Sprouting grass mixed with mud and remnants of snow on the unpaved sides of Auschwitz. The sun warms the body despite the cold. Eighty years ago, the extermination camp was surrounded by fog on ...
Rabbi Samuel Rose had his remarks struck from the video record of a Holocaust memorial in Columbia, SC. He writes that he ...
I knew that on 24 May 1945, the surviving Jewish members of the women’s orchestra of Auschwitz, who had been sent to Belsen by their Nazi captors some months earlier, had given a Red Cross concert.
A 42-mile trip west of Kraków, the brutal, crushing concentration and extermination camps of Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau are located in the city of Oswiecim. More than 1.1 million ...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Members of a Gainesville Choir sang to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The Shabbatones Chorus sang songs composed by prisoners in the concentration ...