The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the ...

Silence pervades the site of Auschwitz-Birkenau today. Sometimes the only sounds are the soft footsteps of visitors, people ...

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In all, the Nazi regime murdered 6 million Jews from all over Europe, annihilating two-thirds of Europe's Jews and one-third ...

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — The 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops is being marked on Monday at the ...

Around 50 survivors and dozens of world leaders attended memorial events at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland on Monday to mark the 80th anniversary of its liberation ...

Eighty years ago on January 27, 1945, soldiers from Russia's Red Army entered the gates of Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland and were the first to discover the horrors of the concentration camp where ...

“It doesn’t do any good for your heart, for your mind, for anything,” said Holocaust survivor Jona Laks, 94, about her return to Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.

Events marking the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp ... library include photographs of Auschwitz, the notorious Nazi death camp in then-occupied Poland where more than a million Jews ...

People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland on January 23, 2025 [Oded Balilty/AP] “It is not ...

The German authorities founded the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1940 in the Polish town of Oswiecim after their invasion of Poland in 1939. Early on, it was a camp for Polish prisoners ...