Hila Weisz-Gut’s grandmother survived Auschwitz. In 2023, Weisz-Gut moved to the town where the concentration camp is located. A parade of dignitaries and dozens of Holocaust survivors came to ...

An Israeli high school student was arrested and questioned by police for doing a Nazi salute during a school trip to ...

Lauder, representing major donors to the memorial site, and historian Piotr Cywiński, director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Five years ago, Poland’s president Andrzej Duda was the ...

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That camp was Auschwitz. According to documents recently ... And this feels like a new attempt to seed the idea that Poland also has genocidal and Nazi impulses. The problem with the revelation ...

Mr Turski survived the Lodz Ghetto, extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau and two death marches as a teenager.

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 ...

WARSAW, Poland — Marian Turski, a Holocaust survivor who became a journalist and historian in postwar Poland and co-founded Warsaw’s landmark Jewish history museum, died on Tuesday. He was 98.

I disagree with David Mamet that “Auschwitz Should Belong to Israel” (op-ed, Feb. 10), even though I believe Jews suffered the greatest tragedy there. As support for his argument, Mr. Mamet ...

More than 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, perished in gas chambers or from starvation, cold and disease at Auschwitz, where most had been brought in freight wagons, packed like livestock. More than ...

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