Encouraged by the Nazis to form marching bands to foster the myth death camps were places of industry, inmates with musical talent had a slightly better chance of surviving the Holocaust... and one ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and ...

One Auschwitz survivor insisted her daughter learnt ... more than one million people had been killed. They died in gas chambers, in mass executions, as a result of torture and horrifying medical ...

In 1944, his parents and brother were deported to the German Nazi camp Auschwitz, and he arrived there two weeks later in one of the last transports. His father and brother died in the gas ...

such as shootings and mobile gas chambers, on a larger scale. The belief that the slaughter could be halted by destroying ...