Among 34,000 people in the town of Oświęcim is just one Jew – a young Israeli named Hila Weisz-Gut. It’s an interesting choice of residence, given the most famous feature of the town is its proximity ...

The others — the elderly, women, children and babies — were gassed to death soon after their arrival. Altogether the Germans murdered 6 million Jews, or two-thirds of all of Europe's Jews, in the ...

Some of the last living survivors spoke of worrying signs that safeguards of “never again” are falling away while antisemitism rises.

at Auschwitz and on to their deaths in the new camp. Soon trains would arrive at Birkenau at a specially constructed ramp, a short distance away from two gas chambers, and at one point 12,000 Jews ...

the Soviet Red Army liberated survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the Nazi extermination camp in the Silesian region of southern Poland. The arrival of the Allies gave the world its first real ...

Touring the Auschwitz-Birkenau memorial museum in 2015 ... for prisoners returning from hours of forced labour and for new arrivals being herded to their deaths in the camp's gas chambers.

On the 80th anniversary of the death camp's liberation, 98-year-old survivor Marian Turski addresses the commemoration in Poland.

OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) — Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Oded Balilty started with the AP as a freelancer in Jerusalem in ...

children and babies — were gassed to death soon after their arrival. Altogether the Germans murdered 6 million Jews, or two-thirds of all of Europe's Jews, in the Holocaust at Auschwitz and ...

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum says it expects ... children and babies — were gassed to death soon after their arrival. A picture taken just after the liberation by the Soviet army in ...