When World War II broke out in 1939, Gajowniczek, now a sergeant, defended Wieluń — the first Polish city attacked by the ...

The information the men smuggled out of Auschwitz formed the basis for the Vrba-Wetzler Report — the first time the international community had heard of much of these horrors. The new Slovakian ...

Auschwitz is not only the place where 1.1 million ... Danica Kirka in London and Randy Herschaft in New York contributed to this report.

A severely emaciated man, who was “akin to a survivor of Auschwitz’s death camp” when he was rescued from a Connecticut house ...

Encouraged by the Nazis to form marching bands to foster the myth death camps were places of industry, inmates with musical ...

An SS man came in. He raped her. There was no God in Auschwitz. There were such horrible conditions that God decided not to go there." It wasn't just men who exploited the situation they found ...

Greece marked the anniversary of the departure in 1943 of the first train from Thessaloniki taking Jews to Auschwitz death ...

It was reported yesterday that the Auschwitz Museum confiscated hostage flags belonging to a group of British Jews who were touring the memorial site. Although national flags are permitted these flags ...

Before Auschwitz, Höss — born Catholic and a World ... Within the Nazi upper ranks, Höss was considered, according to an SS report, a “true pioneer” for his mass-killing innovations ...

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

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

Dan Snow introduces a report about the brutal conditions faced by people at Auschwitz.1.1 million people were murdered at the death camp, including Jews, Jehovah Witnesses, homosexuals ...